#freedom

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything. ↗

— Boy George

#anything #exist #freedom #i #jokes

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#capture #civil #civil rights #entourage #equal

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. ↗

— James Larkin

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#comforter #console #cure #death #freedom

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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