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If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a...

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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion...

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True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a...

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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion...

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True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a...

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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion...

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True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous ...

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The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time...

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Bob BlackThe Abolition of Work & Other Essays

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...

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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. A...

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Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

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Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...

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God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

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Brennan ManningThe Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about you...

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Brennan ManningThe Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinio...

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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

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One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits tha...

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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all impor...

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi...

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alik...

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Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, ...

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The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game ...

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We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the l...

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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to ...

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...

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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

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So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their chil...

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty ...

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It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energ...

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The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...

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Carlos FuentesMyself with Others: Selected Essays

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of l...

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She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Th...

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Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Good. Because I don't need protecting.""I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. An...

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She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. ...

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There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by lo...

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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from th...

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I think I know the delights of freedom

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, wh...

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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

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Charles SimicThe Monster Loves His Labyrinth

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conque...

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now...

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of li...

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Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to se...

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As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a prof...

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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the rig...

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There were no parents holding them back, no younger siblings needing to be cared for, no one telling...

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Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we we...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilizat...

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The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do any...

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We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening ...

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This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're a...

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You can only be free if I am free.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His vie...

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It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

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Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form....

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But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

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And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

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I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by peopl...

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

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And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose ...

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Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many ti...

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Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up cl...

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But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The ...

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The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of o...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and ...

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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every gen...

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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing chu...

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To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

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Cornel WestDemocracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. W...

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It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...

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Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener ...

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Cyril ConnollyThe Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

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

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