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" A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. "
Roald Dahl
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" In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. "
Elliott Abrams
Speech
Religion
Rules
" Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. "
Ron Lewis
Step
Positive
Religion
" Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. "
Vladimir Lenin
Always
Freedom
Same
" All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. "
Roald Dahl
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Children
Find
" Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Freedom
Action
Men
" Freedom is the right to live as we wish. "
Epictetus
Freedom
Wish
Right
" The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom. "
Adam Hamilton
God
School
Teachers
" I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me. "
Wilma Rudolph
Me
Feeling
Fresh Air
" When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. "
Vladimir Lenin
Time
Socialism
Revolution
" No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. "
Andre Breton
Moment
Feeling
Freedom
" Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad. "
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Freedom
Friendship
Home
" You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "
Malcolm X
Intelligent
Man
Freedom
" In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book. "
Luke Rhinehart
Dice
Write
Students
" The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech. "
Judith Butler
Control
Freedom
Government
" Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy. "
Deeyah Khan
Freedom
Speech
Democracy
" Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. "
Tipper Gore
Foundation
Society
Values
" I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. "
Kenneth Branagh
Good
Freedom
World
" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "
Rollo May
Human
Human Dignity
Freedom
" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom
Oppressed
Forever
" You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. "
Don Lemon
Opinion
Freedom
You
" Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. "
Moshe Dayan
Freedom
Oxygen
Soul
" Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways. "
Eric Schmidt
Change
Freedom
Ideas
" Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. "
Ayn Rand
Progress
Society
Men
" Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. "
Henry Giroux
Power
Own
People
" Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life. "
Mahathir Mohamad
Own
Life
Freedom
" If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom. "
Bayard Rustin
Men
Brotherhood
Freedom
" Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. "
Suzanne Collins
Explore
Story
You
" The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. "
John Stuart Mill
Long
Name
Own
" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "
Richard M. Nixon
Freedom
Face
Community
" I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. "
Roald Dahl
Desert
Egypt
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