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Freedom Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was…
- We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
- Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
- Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make…
- This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions…
- ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided…
- A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
- The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
- Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when…
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
- The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
- But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
- This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.…
- Liberties are not given, they are taken.
- A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.vvvvvvvvvv
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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