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    Jim Morrison
    “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
    ― Jim MORRISON
    tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
    2112 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: freedom, happiness
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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  • #18
    “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
    ― John Philpot Curran
    tags: freedom, liberty, misattributed, misquote
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    Thomas Paine
    “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: blessings, freedom, liberty
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    Alan Moore
    “My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: freedom, integrity, valerie-page
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
    818 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: americanism, equality, freedom, independence, individuality, liberty, patriotic, patriotism, respect, self-respect
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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    Patrick Henry
    “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
    ― Patrick Henry
    tags: freedom, liberty, revolution, slavery
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: censorship, freedom
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    Bill Maher
    “freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”
    ― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
    tags: citizenship, freedom, government, participation, politics, responsibility
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    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: freedom, friendship, jim-morrison
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  • #28
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Ansel Adams
    “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, confidence, emotion, expression, freedom, perception, self-expression
    600 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed
    tags: government, honesty
    174 likes



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