"This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected."
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"...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order."
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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
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"Let silence take you to the core of life."
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"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
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"You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about."
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"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
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"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
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"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
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"The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation."
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"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
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"How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?"
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
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"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
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"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom."
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