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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Foucault
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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
— Thomas Merton
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We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond…
— Pope Dionysius
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What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
— John Stuart Mill
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The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written…
— Bill McKibben
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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
— John Milton
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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and…
— Voltaire
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No man is by nature the property of another. The defendant is, therefore, by nature free.
— Samuel Johnson
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