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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
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Related Topic(s): FEELING; Freedom; Pe; Pleasure
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We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly.
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We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
...there is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so lo...
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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We have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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We... would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to chose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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What looks to us like chaos also has the fecundity of freedom at work.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds,-- if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds,-- if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force, When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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Where the mind is without ear and the head is held high;
Were knowledge is free;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its
way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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Who then is free? The wise man who can command his self and his passions, who fears not poverty, nor death, nor chains, who bravely resists his appetites and scorns ambition, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded and polished, so that nothing from outside can rest on the polished surface, and against whom fortune in her onset is ever defeated..
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Related Topic(s): Freedom
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom; Invent Invention
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It is only men who are free who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
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Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, the explanation of the perihelion precession of Mercury, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity (gravitational lensing), the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian motion of molecules, the photon theory and the wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semi-classical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted Bose-Einstein condensation.
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Related Topic(s): Corporations; Democracy; Dictatorship; Freedom
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
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Noam Chomsky
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Avram Noam Chomsky , known as Noam Chomsky, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist, referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views, despite being typically absent from the mainstream media.In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He elaborated on these ideas in 1957's Syntactic Structures, which then laid the groundwork for the concept of transformational grammar. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior. In this review and other writings, Chomsky broadly and aggressively challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time, and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic[10] approach to the study of language has influenced the philosophy of language and mind.
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Related Topic(s): Capitalism; Freedom; Property
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...capitalism is basically a system where everything is for sale, and the more money you have, the more you can get. And, in particular, that's true of freedom. Freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it. It shows up in all sorts of ways. It shows up if you get in trouble with the law, let's say, or in any aspect of life it shows up. And for that reason it makes a lot of sense, if you acc...
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Noam Chomsky
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Avram Noam Chomsky , known as Noam Chomsky, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist, referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views, despite being typically absent from the mainstream media.In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He elaborated on these ideas in 1957's Syntactic Structures, which then laid the groundwork for the concept of transformational grammar. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior. In this review and other writings, Chomsky broadly and aggressively challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time, and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic[10] approach to the study of language has influenced the philosophy of language and mind.
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