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Freedom Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
- See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have…
- I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
- A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
- Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,…
- Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength…
- I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
- Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,…
- Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience…
More Freedom Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood