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#1

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

tags: freedom, pascifism, violence

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#2

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcom X

tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war

1214 likes

#3

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence

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#4

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

tags: military, police, violence

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#5

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

tags: authority, democracy, violence

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#6

“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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#7

“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

2163 likes

#8

“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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#9

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: choice, freedom, peace, war

1047 likes

#10

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech

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#11

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom, inspirational, personal-freedom

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#12

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

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