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Wednesday, 7 January 2009
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"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Baudrillard, Jean - Smile)

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Browse Quotations about Freedom

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.
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.
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.
Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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.
For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
Freedom exists only with power.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye, that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood!
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.