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" One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. "

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" Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. "

Stokely Carmichael

" For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. "

" In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. "

" The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. "

" Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. "

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

" 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

" A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. "

" I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat. "

" Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. "

" I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me. "

" I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. "

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to. "

" There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. "

" I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion. "

" I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. "

" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "

William Glasser

" There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. "

" As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. "

" The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities. "

" Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. "

" The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. "

" Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

" None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. "

" The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. "

" I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk