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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: civil-rights
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Bob Marley
    “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom, liberty, life, revolution
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  • #9
    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: freedom
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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4470 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
    3132 likes

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    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4203 likes

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  • #18
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Extras
    tags: destruction, freedom
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    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear, freedom
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  • #28
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: fear, freedom, responsibility
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
    1141 likes



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