Freedom Quotes
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I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.
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It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.
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Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.
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Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
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There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
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But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
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I have achieved an inner freedom.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
