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title: "8 Individual Freedoms Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ai-weiwei/in-a-society-that-restricts-individual-freedoms-and-violates-human/)

[Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ai-weiwei/)

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> [Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/marriage-would-change-hardly-anything-between-us-except-that-we-would/)

[Lisa Kleypas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kleypas/)

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> [I believe in individual freedoms and I believe that the state must be present when the markets demand it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-fernandez/i-believe-in-individual-freedoms-and-i-believe-that-the-state-must-be/)

[Alberto Fernandez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-fernandez/)

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> [For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/for-we-have-always-understood-that-when-times-change-so-must-we-that/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-c-hicks/yet-it-is-also-true-hegel-granted-that-in-many-cases-the-individual-s/)

[Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-c-hicks/)

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> [Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/taste-cannot-be-controlled-by-law-we-must-resist-at-all-costs-any/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gad-saad/individual-freedoms-are-the-primary-engine-by-which-the-pursuit-of/)

[Gad Saad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gad-saad/)

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> [You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/najat-vallaud-belkacem/you-should-be-appeasing-people-as-much-as-possible-not-stigmatising/)

[Najat Vallaud-Belkacem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/najat-vallaud-belkacem/)

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