#free

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone 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

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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ↗

— Malcolm X

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

— Nelson Mandela

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Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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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

#free #gets #i #knowledge #learn

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

— Haruki Murakami

#days #free #people #these #trust

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

— Jean-Paul Marat

#cut #five #freedom #happiness #heads

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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