"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade."
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"As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats."
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"In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom."
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"From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi."
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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."
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"The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves."
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"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
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"Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."
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"Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom."
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"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves."
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"Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell."
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"Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself."
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"The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor."
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"The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."
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"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."
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"Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth."
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