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).
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“If freedom’s best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.” -Mitch Daniels
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“For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what’s forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That’s what we call freedom.” -Muqtada al Sadr
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“Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.” -Cathy McMorris
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“Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.” -Joichi Ito
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“The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life – to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.” -Harry Browne
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“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.” -Tim Robbins
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“None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.” -Dan Stevens
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“Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.” -Christopher Dodd
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“Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.” -Horst Koehler
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“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.” -Ho Chi Minh
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“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” -Kris Kristofferson
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“Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.” -Kenny Loggins
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“I say let’s go back to a truer use of the word ‘freedom.’ Let’s start with President Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.” -Richard Trumka
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“People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – let’s say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.” -Frank Herbert
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“Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
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“Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.” -Gerry Adams
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“We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.” -L. Neil Smith
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“It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.” -Mary Richards
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“Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.” -Demosthenes
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“Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.” -Arthur Henderson
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“They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“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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“Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.” -Robert Wyatt
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“Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation’s Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America’s flag and the ideals it represents.” -Ron Lewis
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“I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.” -Mike Huckabee
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“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.” -Philip Wylie
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“In America it’s live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.” -Vince McMahon
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“I’ve never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn’t, I didn’t do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don’t have.” -Michael Haneke
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“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.” -John Bolton
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“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.” -Lyn Nofziger
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“Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That’s freedom.” -Demi Moore
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“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.” -Adlai Stevenson
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“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.” -Herbert Read
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“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” -John Thune
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“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.” -Diane Keaton
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“You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don’t have any freedom left, or you’re going to build a world that doesn’t create terrorists – and that means a whole different way of ‘getting along.’” -John Shelby Spong
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“The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don’t want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.” -Joe Nichols
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“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.” -Howard Nemerov
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“The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom – the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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“I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.” -Bear Grylls
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“You cannot mistake Bush’s clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren’t just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.” -Eric Liu
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“I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.” -Tadao Ando
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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.” -John Boehner
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“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.” -Walter Lippmann
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“I’m privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.” -Jennifer Garner
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“I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.” -Melissa Etheridge
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“So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don’t like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that’s truly about freedom.” -Scott Walker
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“I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don’t be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I’m lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there’s no need to be greedy.” -Jonah Hill
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“As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.” -Allen West
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“I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.” -Sidney Sheldon
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“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.” -Alan Dean Foster
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“Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.” -Mario Vargas Llosa
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“Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.” -Zack Wamp
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“I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a…
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“I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.” -Chris Patten
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“There’s a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.” -Dave Matthews
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“I needed freedom to really express myself. That’s really what Justified is about.” -Justin Timberlake
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“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” -James McGreevey
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“I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.” -Isabel Allende
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“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!” -Mother Jones
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“That’s why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.” -Conrad Hall
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“Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.” -Alexander Meiklejohn
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“No, I don’t believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.” -Damien Hirst
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“Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.” -Larry Flynt
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“It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.” -Florence Welch
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“I have the freedom to do what I want… bright people to talk to every day.” -Freeman Dyson
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“The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.” -Betty Ford
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“I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.” -Nick Clegg
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“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.” -Jasper Johns
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“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.” -Rose Wilder Lane
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“I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I’m competing with is me.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.” -Jimmy Wales
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“Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.” -Jim DeMint
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“I don’t believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.” -Shimon Peres
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“I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.” -Jane Fonda
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“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream.” -Thomas Francis Meagher
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“Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.” -Marc Morial
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“More than anything else, let me be clear – we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That’s what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.” -Mike Pence
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“I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.” -Amy Tan
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“The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.” -Sloane Crosley
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“I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.” -Naguib Mahfouz
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“Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.” -Ron Wyden
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“If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.” -Charles Horton Cooley
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“All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.” -Steven Hatfill
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“I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.” -Margaret Atwood
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“I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.” -Adam Carolla
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“I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men’s clothes.” -Miuccia Prada
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“Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.” -Walter Koenig
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“A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.” -Dan Rather
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“After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.” -George Pataki
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“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.” -Jeffrey Sachs
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“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.” -Michelangelo Antonioni
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“I don’t think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.” -Christy Turlington
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“I remain optimistic. What we’ve seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.” -Gijs de Vries
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“Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.” -Hugo Black
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“Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.” -Charles Schumer
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“But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.” -Jane Campion
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“They have the ability to take a person’s freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person’s reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person’s life.” -Daryl Gates
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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.” -Haruki Murakami
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“Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” -Henrik Ibsen
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“Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.” -Milos Forman
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“If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.” -Henry A. Wallace
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“He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.” -Wynton Marsalis
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“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness.” -Ivan Turgenev
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“The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.” -Paul Stanley
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“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.” -James D. Watson
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“I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.” -Ann Romney
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“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.” -Norman Thomas
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“We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don’t have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.” -Luke Scott
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“If it’s total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn’t even have to play.” -Alice Cooper
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“Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.” -William Falconer
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“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” -James A. Garfield
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“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.” -Alan Greenspan
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“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.” -Yahya Jammeh
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“Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.” -Claude Chabrol
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“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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“Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.” -Thomas Moore
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“I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”…
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“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.” -Jesse Jackson
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“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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“Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don’t think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we’ve come from. We are…
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“One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.” -Dan Savage
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“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.” -Karl Popper
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“Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.” -Salman Rushdie
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“We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.” -Vernon Howard
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“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and…
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“If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.” -Kofi Annan
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“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.” -Rollo May
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“Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.” -Nancy Pelosi
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“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.” -Lech Walesa
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“Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.” -Richard G. Scott
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“I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.” -James Lovelock
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“America’s Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.” -John Doolittle
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“Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?” -King Abdullah II
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“You can be a thousand different women. It’s your choice which one you want to be. It’s about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, ‘This is my kingdom.’” -Salma Hayek
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“When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.” -Colin Firth
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“The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.” -Tony Blair
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“No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.” -Patti Smith
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“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.” -Rowan Atkinson
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“For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different…
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“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America’s unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom – not least freedom of conscience.” -Jon Meacham
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“But there is a corollary to freedom and that’s personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.” -Esther Dyson
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“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.” -Thomas Mann
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“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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“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“Her beauty didn’t do her any good and she couldn’t use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.” -Diane Kruger
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“If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.” -Rand Paul
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“Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.” -James Otis
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“The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.” -Julie Burchill
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“I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.” -Jeremy Renner
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“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.” -Douglas Horton
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“Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.” -David O. McKay
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“I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.” -Anna Quindlen
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“The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.” -William Hague
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“Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who ‘hate freedom’. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.” -Peter Singer
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“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.” -Benjamin Carson
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“Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.” -Willa Cather
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“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you’re not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don’t know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.” -Hal…
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“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.” -Michel Foucault
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“I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.” -Roberto Cavalli
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