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Freedom Quotes by Edward Abbey
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
- Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
- Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
- We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
- To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger.…
- What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude,…
- Freedom begins between the ears.
- The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country,…
- Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
- Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
- We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have…
- Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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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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