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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone De Beauvoir

There are some great points about having so many freedoms as we do in the US, but the downside is people get in who are not deserving of those freedoms and endanger us all.
Sam Graves

Freedom can be a frightening thing when you are not used to it.
Zana Muhsen

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith Hamilton

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X

Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 'The American Flag'
Joseph Rodman Drake

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J G Ballard

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Anthony Eden

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W Somerset Maugham

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to
Hannen Swaffer

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)
John Wilmot

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Kris Kristoffersen

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free passage and freedom of action to all buyers and sellers whoever they may be.
Francois Quesnay

We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
Leon Kass

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

A standard bearer for freedom, even civilisation [on pornography]
Salman Rushdie

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people co-operate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton Friedman

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Foster

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai Stevenson

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that their career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. [quite right too!]
Suzanne Fields

Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King Jr

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness
David Moir

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within
Quintus Ennius

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre

Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances... a day to honour those who died defending our freedom.
Doc Hastings

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast
Andre Maurois

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
Salman Rushdie

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings
Walter J Lippmann

To hear one voice clearly, we must have freedom to hear them all.
Kerry Brock

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H Douglas

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh



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