#free

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

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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. ↗

— Jean-Paul Marat

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The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

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The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

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No man can given anybody his freedom. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. ↗

— Pauline Marois

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There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. ↗

— Peter Marshall

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