- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Quotes
Freedom looks different depending on what you're free from.
Freedom shows up here in several forms - the room a genre gives an artist to take risks, the flexibility educators say they need to get real results, and the broader idea of personal liberty pushing back against overreach. For a related theme, see Courage Quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
- Greatest Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.
- Enslavement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is living without chains.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020