Freedom Quotes - Page 18

• If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

  Jon Rappoport

  Matter, Payoff, Ifs

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Atheism, Superstitions, Anarchy

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

  Anne Roe

  Doe

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• If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

  P. K. Page

  Men, World, Aperture

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• We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Maurice Denis

  Art, Ideas, Personality

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ideas, Creative, Groups

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• Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

  George Rodrigue

  Feelings, Painting, Turns

  George Rodrigue (1999). “Blue Dog Man”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

  Emile Faguet

  Sheep, Would Be, Born

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• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Character, Complete Freedom

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• Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Desire, Strive

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.18, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

  Honore Daumier

  Justice For All, Justice, Pedestal

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• Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  People, Dangerous, Tolerate

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.991, Library of America

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• Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

  Mervyn Levy

  Song, Art, Self

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• Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
  Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
  Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
  And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

  Joseph Addison

  Liberty, Delight, Reign

  Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44

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• The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rain, Water Lily, Firsts

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Father, Ocean, Fighting

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• You can only be free if I am free.

  Clarence Darrow

  Liberty, Libertarian, Limited Government

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

  Jonathan Swift

  Slave, Freeman

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.102

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• Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  "Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung" by Rosa Luxemburg, (p. 109), 1920.

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• Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Way, Freedom Liberty

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

  Paul Robeson

  Hard

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Animal, Determined

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Responsibility, Caring, Helping Others

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• O freedom, first delight of human kind!

  John Dryden

  Delight, Firsts, Kind

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.468

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