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

MALCOLM X

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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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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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I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

JOHN DRYDEN

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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

JIMMY CARTER

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The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born baby's head

U2

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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. Completely to empty the whole content of the mind--that is real freedom. Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

LEON BLUM

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

AYN RAND

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

JAMES BALDWIN

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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

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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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The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

WILHELM REICH

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Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

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