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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone


John Stuart Mill


#inspirational #john-stuart-mill #truth #freedom

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.


Vladimir Lenin


#always #ancient #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom

This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In the name of kindness This is democracy by the whip And the fear of chains With a whirlwind at its core


Abdul Salam Zaeef


#freedom

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.


Winston Churchill


#perseverance #freedom

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.


Donna Leon


#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.


Thomas Jefferson


#politics #society #freedom

Georgeta cleared her throat, and pushed herself deeper into the sofa cushion. “You know Penelope Stephanopoulos, Jasmira’s best friend?” she asked. “That Greek redhead with an attitude bigger than the Parthenon?” Erik snorted.


Angela Orlowski-Peart


#attitude

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.


Bertrand Russell


#expression #freedom-of-expression #rationality #thought #freedom

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.


Jim Thompson


#freedom

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.


George Henry Lewes


#been #flourish #genius #growth #into






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