“Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.”
— Ai Weiwei
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“As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.”
— Steve Forbes
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“In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.”
— Michael Burgess
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“The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.”
— Titus Livius
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“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.”
— Indra Devi
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“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
— Arthur Erickson
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
— Albert Camus
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“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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“Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
— Nelson Mandela
Author: Nelson Mandela
Category: freedom
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