FREEDOM QUOTES II

quotations about freedom

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Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood, and all too often we have acted as though we too believed that it was wealth and abundance which were at stake in the postwar conflict between the "revolutionary" countries in the East and the West. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" was the blessing of America prior to the Revolution, and that its cause was natural abundance under "mild government," and neither political freedom nor the unchained, unbridled "private initiative" of capitalism, which in the absence of natural wealth has led everywhere to unhappiness and mass poverty. Free enterprise, in other words, has been an unmixed blessing only in America, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

HANNAH ARENDT

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

SRI AUROBINDO

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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

ANDRE GIDE

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It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.

CHANAKYA

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

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The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES

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It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

MALCOLM X

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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains.

SRI AUROBINDO

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The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

TAD WILLIAMS

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

JAMES BALDWIN

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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

AYN RAND

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The human cry for freedom is like the wind, when it starts blowing people can sniff it. All the powers of the world are afraid of it. The powers can build prisons, grow armies, police and kill all they want. But the buildings will fall to sand, the armies will melt away while the breeze just keeps on blowing.

BILL CREWS

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Freedom is sometimes defined as a lack of resistance or restraint. A wheel turns freely if there is very little friction in the bearing, a horse breaks free from the post to which it has been tethered, a man frees himself from the branch on which he has been caught while climbing a tree. Physical restraint is an obvious condition, which seems particularly useful in defining freedom, but with respect to important issues, it is a metaphor and not a very good one. People are indeed controlled by fetters, handcuffs, strait jackets, and the walls of jails and concentration camps, but what may be called behavioral control--the restraint imposed by contingencies of reinforcement--is a very different thing.

BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER

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Any bonds today?
Bonds of freedom
That's what I'm selling
Any bonds today?
Scrape up the most you can
Here comes the freedom man

DUKE ELLINGTON

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May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly--until at last the darkness is no more.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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