Freedom Quotes
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I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.
Ewan MacColl
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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Ernest Becker
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Albert Camus
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
April Parker Jones
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Under the claim of “religious freedom”—the cover for a gigantic new fictional creature called “corporate conscience”—the rights of workers could be given short shrift once again.
Barry W. Lynn
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Paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
Brenda Novak
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I became a musician to be free, and freedom means pursuing your musical interests. So if you were tied to be in a band only, that probably would be too restrictive.
Phil Manzanera Roxy Music
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William O. Douglas
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I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.
Judith Butler
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Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.
Anthony Lawlor
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Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
Soren Kierkegaard
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$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
Tim Ferriss
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
Will Durant
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Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Hillary Clinton
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For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
Fisher Ames
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
Gautama Buddha
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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
Cathy Rigby
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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Helen Keller
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
Friedrich Nietzsche