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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.
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.