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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
