freedom

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘freedom’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.” -William Lyon Mackenzie King

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  • “What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?” -Kate Millett

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  • “Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.” -Ingrid Newkirk

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  • “Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.” -Delphine de Girardin

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  • “We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.” -Steve Forbes

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  • “The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.” -Ibrahim Babangida

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  • “While it’s really hard to do, at the same time, I’m escaping my body, which I really want to do. I’m living someone else’s life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I’m experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don’t have in my physical…

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  • “I’ve never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.” -Rene Redzepi

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  • “Fulfill – you can far more than fulfill – the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.” -Robert Dale Owen

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  • “The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.” -Jose Marti

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  • “I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.” -Tony Gilroy

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  • “The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.” -Bruce Jackson

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  • “You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.” -Edward Burns

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  • “The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.” -Bob Riley

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  • “Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.” -Robert Jackson

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  • “A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children’s lives can’t.” -Suzanne Fields

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  • “When I was in jail, I was a lot of people’s favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.” -Flavor Flav

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  • “People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any…

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  • “To me, music has to be about freedom. It’s the most important thing in my life.” -Joss Stone

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  • “The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.” -Benicio Del Toro

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  • “Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.” -Jose Maria Aznar

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  • “Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.” -Tammy Baldwin

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  • “The main thing I believe in is freedom.” -Charles Evers

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  • “Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.” -John Ralston Saul

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  • “We live in a land like no other – a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.” -Bob Taft

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  • “We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.” -Mahmoud Abbas

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  • “In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There’s a real sense of freedom now. It’s a good time to finish, I think. As much as I’m going to miss it I’m ready to move on and do different things.” -Rupert Grint

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  • “Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country’s birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.” -John Linder

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  • “To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.” -Richard Perle

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  • “I think that we could be more careful about what we’re saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It’s unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.” -Emily Procter

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  • “I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn’t get in bad, bad trouble.” -Paul Giamatti

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  • “I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech – and the freedom of dreaming, really.” -Petra Nemcova

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  • “Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It’s called freedom.” -Rudy Giuliani

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  • “The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.” -Mark Udall

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  • “Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.” -Henri Bergson

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  • “We’ve got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.” -John Ashcroft

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  • “When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.” -DeForest Soaries

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  • “If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?” -Matt Drudge

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  • “I am somebody who… – I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there’s a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.” -Tiffeny Milbrett

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  • “I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.” -Mary Harris Jones

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  • “We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.” -Vicente Fox

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  • “I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.” -Natan Sharansky

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  • “I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.” -Jean Paul Gaultier

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  • “I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I’ve ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.” -Criss Angel

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  • “When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.” -Jack Herer

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  • “Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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  • “I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.” -Gianni Versace

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  • “Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.” -Charles Kennedy

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  • “Money equals freedom.” -Kevin O’Leary

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  • “A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.” -Greg Walden

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  • “As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn’t have ‘yes’ parents.” -Emmanuelle Chriqui

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  • “If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.” -Gary Ackerman

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  • “I know what you’re going to say! ‘They are men, and men should be free.’ A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.” -Dave Sim

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  • “Freedom is a muscle… you have to exercise it.” -Roy Scheider

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  • “People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don’t like the shop trading hours and you’re a shop owner, you don’t have to open.” -Jay Weatherill

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  • “A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.” -Jerzy Kosinski

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  • “School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.” -Leigh Steinberg

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  • “The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.” -Dan Castellaneta

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  • “You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.” -Corazon Aquino

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  • “My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.” -Angela Davis

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  • “It’s great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you’re leaving your other life behind.” -Anna Paquin

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  • “I always wanted to make a children’s album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.” -Lisa Loeb

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  • “It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.” -Henry Charles Carey

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  • “You know, you don’t retreat in the defense of freedom. You don’t retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don’t retreat because people are going to defend bad things.” -Russell Pearce

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  • “If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.” -Mario Monti

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  • “Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don’t do everything we might please – we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.” -Tammy Bruce

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  • “Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.” -Mohammed Morsi

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  • “Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn’t really exist in a Hollywood game.” -Mira Nair

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  • “America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.” -Brent Scowcroft

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  • “I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.” -Paul Walker

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  • “Money buys many things… The best of which is freedom.” -Mary Renault

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  • “My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.” -Yakov Smirnoff

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  • “Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.” -Karel Capek

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  • “Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don’t think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski

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  • “People ask ‘How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?’ Well, when you’re doing a commercial you don’t have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the…

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  • “The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.” -Phyllis Schlafly

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  • “Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there’s a way to do it without it being a jazz record.” -Jane Siberry

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  • “That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.” -Ben Harper

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  • “You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don’t necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity… We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.” -Carlos Fuentes

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  • “For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.” -John Charles Polanyi

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  • “It’s good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don’t fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.” -Lawrence Lessig

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  • “The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.” -Tom Wolfe

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  • “I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I don’t have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I’m in a position of freedom. I don’t need anyone’s approval.” -Juliana Hatfield

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  • “Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn’t really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they’re more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.” -Vincent Cassel

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  • “Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.” -Robert Foster Bennett

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  • “I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens’ rights come second to those of corporations.” -Frances O’Grady

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  • “In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.” -Michael Burgess

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  • “To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.” -Jon Landau

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  • “The enemies of freedom will not prevail.” -Bill Frist

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  • “In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?” -Frederic Bastiat

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  • “How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We’re supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.” -Roger Stone

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  • “Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.” -Steve Wozniak

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  • “Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.” -Guy Finley

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  • “Havin’ fun while freedom fightin’ must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country…

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  • “Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.” -Joe Baca

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  • “We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.” -Theodor Herzl

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  • “Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.” -Anita Brookner

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  • “When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.” -Serj Tankian

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  • “I don’t think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws – against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.” -Bill Keller

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  • “The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.” -Mike Fitzpatrick

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  • “Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.” -Indra Devi

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  • “There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs

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  • “History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.” -Gary Ross

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  • “With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there’s a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn’t let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.” -Ian MacKaye

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  • “I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I’ll continue to do that.” -Moira Kelly

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  • “Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.” -Dave Brubeck

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  • “I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.” -Paul Getty

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  • “This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.” -Mark Kennedy

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  • “I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company – Nonesuch understands what I’m about.” -Emmylou Harris

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  • “If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.” -Wendell Willkie

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  • “Our Founders warned against this. They said don’t… that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.” -Sharron Angle

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  • “Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.” -Willie Stargell

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  • “Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.” -Lajos Kossuth

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  • “I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights – if need be – with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” -Lee Myung-bak

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  • “The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.” -Randall Terry

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  • “I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.” -Rick Scott

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  • “Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you’re born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.” -Freida Pinto

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  • “It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.” -Steve Winwood

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  • “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson

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  • “That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.” -Sheryl Crow

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  • “Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There’s nothing that says I can’t write a page of full stops. There is no ‘should’ involved, although you wouldn’t know that from literary reviews and critics.” -Kate Atkinson

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  • “Republican values – strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others – are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans’ job to remind Americans of that fact.” -Gary Bauer

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  • “I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.” -George Papandreou

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  • “The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.” -Constance Baker Motley

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  • “I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.” -Jeff Miller

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  • “Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally – and being an actor you have that freedom.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

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  • “The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.” -Titus Livius

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  • “Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.” -Rosa Luxemburg

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  • “Our work is a scream of freedom.” -Christo

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  • “When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for…

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  • “I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.” -Miguel Jontel Pimentel

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  • “I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.” -Robert Capa

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  • “The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.” -Felix Adler

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  • “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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  • “Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’” -Ernestine Rose

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  • “All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as ‘the richest, freest’ country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and – among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom – probably did deserve to be so described.”…

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  • “When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.” -Alan Keyes

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  • “With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.” -Dan Lipinski

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  • “They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.” -Audie Murphy

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  • “With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.” -Kylie Minogue

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  • “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” -Benjamin Cardozo

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  • “American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.” -Todd Gitlin

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  • “But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.” -Kate Adie

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  • “The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.” -Oriana Fallaci

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  • “Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren’t made for freedom spontaneously. There’s sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.” -George…

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  • “Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolutely safety or give me death.’ America is supposed to be about freedom.” -John Stossel

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  • “Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.” -Stokely Carmichael

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  • “I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.” -Maureen O’Hara

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  • “There’s a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus… it’s where all the freaks go – it’s the environment for me.” -Brian Molko

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  • “My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.” -Carre Otis

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  • “I mean there’s enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world – within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It’s hard to see.” -Julian Assange

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  • “It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.” -James Bovard

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  • “Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.” -Powell Clayton

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  • “I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.” -Felix Baumgartner

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  • “President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.” -James Anthony Froude

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  • “All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.” -Jim Ramstad

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  • “There’s also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.” -Andrew Wiles

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  • “One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.” -Ferdinand Mount

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  • “Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.” -Henry Cabot Lodge

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  • “The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • “That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.” -Anish Kapoor

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  • “Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.” -Richard Cobden

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  • “My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.” -Mike Wallace

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  • “Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that’s what we’re needing! We’ve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o’clock.” -Kurt Tucholsky

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  • “Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” -Michel Aoun

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  • “New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • “The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness.” -Paul Twitchell

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  • “I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.” -Sean Parker

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  • “At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.” -Kristi Yamaguchi

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  • “The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.” -Robert Casey

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  • “I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.” -Gordon Parks

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  • “But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.” -Lucy Stone

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  • “Don’t give me any money, don’t give me any people, but give freedom, and I’ll give you a movie that looks gigantic.” -Robert Rodriguez

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  • “The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.” -James Truslow Adams

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  • “An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.” -George Soros

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  • “There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

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