Freedom Quote by Lionel Shriver

““And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.””

Lionel Shriver

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The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

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We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

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Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

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I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they…

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for…

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“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action…

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass