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Freedom Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to…
- Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than…
- For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
- Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by…
- To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
- No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
- Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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- 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
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- 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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