Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 4

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Image of Michael J. Fox
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
- Michael J. Fox
Collection: Freedom
Image of Penn Jillette
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
- Penn Jillette
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Image of Powell Clayton
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
- Powell Clayton
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of John F. Kennedy
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Michael Novak
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
- Michael Novak
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Image of Cori Bush
Freedom cannot be a responsibility that only belongs to some of us.
- Cori Bush
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Image of Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- Frederick Douglass
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Image of Alija Izetbegovic
When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.
- Alija Izetbegovic
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Image of Marine Le Pen
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
- Marine Le Pen
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Image of Sun Yat-sen
The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.
- Sun Yat-sen
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Lal Bahadur Shastri
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Image of Herodotus
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
- Herodotus
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Image of Stokely Carmichael
No man can given anybody his freedom.
- Stokely Carmichael
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Coretta Scott King
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
- Coretta Scott King
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Image of Indira Gandhi
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
- Indira Gandhi
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Image of Walt Whitman
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
- Walt Whitman
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Image of Corliss Lamont
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
- Corliss Lamont
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Image of Victor Davis Hanson
The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
- Victor Davis Hanson
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Image of Ian Mckellen
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
- Ian Mckellen
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Image of Alan Rickman
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
- Alan Rickman
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Image of Leo Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
- Leo Buscaglia
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Image of John Kani
All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.
- John Kani
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Image of Alan Dean Foster
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
- Alan Dean Foster
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Image of Erich Fromm
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- Erich Fromm
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Image of Ben Nelson
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
- Ben Nelson
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Image of Edith Wharton
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Lester Maddox
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
- Lester Maddox
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Image of Paul Walker
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
- Paul Walker
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Image of Martha Beck
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
- Martha Beck
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Image of Irvine Welsh
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
- Irvine Welsh
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Image of Leo McKern
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
- Leo McKern
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Image of Molly Ivins
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
- Molly Ivins
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Image of Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Image of Herbert Marcuse
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
- Herbert Marcuse
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Image of Emma Goldman
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
- Emma Goldman
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Image of Bill Cunningham
Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.
- Bill Cunningham
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Anna Julia Cooper
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
- Anna Julia Cooper
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Image of Grace Kelly
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
- Grace Kelly
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Image of Robert Kennedy
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
- Robert Kennedy
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Image of Charles Peguy
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
- Charles Peguy
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