Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 39

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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Mercedes Lackey
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
- Mercedes Lackey
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Image of Dennis Kucinich
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
- Dennis Kucinich
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of John Locke
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
- John Locke
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Image of C. S. Lewis
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Amiri Baraka
A man is either free or he is not.
- Amiri Baraka
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Jack Kornfield
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.
- Jack Kornfield
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Stanley Baldwin
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
- Stanley Baldwin
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Rudyard Kipling
What stands if freedom fall?
- Rudyard Kipling
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Walter Lippmann
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of C. S. Lewis
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of R. D. Laing
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
- R. D. Laing
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Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from something is not freedom.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Dave Barry
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
- Dave Barry
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Image of Norman Mailer
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.
- Norman Mailer
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Image of Marshall McLuhan
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
- Marshall McLuhan
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Image of Malcolm X
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.
- Malcolm X
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Image of Neal A. Maxwell
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
- Neal A. Maxwell
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Image of Malcolm X
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.
- Malcolm X
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Image of Malcolm X
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- Malcolm X
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Image of George MacDonald
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Malcolm X
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
- Malcolm X
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of H. L. Mencken
I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of James Madison
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.
- James Madison
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Image of James Madison
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.
- James Madison
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Image of Martin Luther
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
- Martin Luther
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Image of Russell Means
Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.
- Russell Means
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