B. F. Skinner Quotes
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.
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The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.
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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
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You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
