Quotes with six-and-twenty

Quotes 5701 till 5720 of 25243.

  • Norman Cousins Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Walt Whitman Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jeffrey Borenstein Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Freedom is the bread and the morning and the risen sun.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Michel Foucault Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Bergen Evans Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
    The Natural History of Nonsense XIX
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Ben Shapiro Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Shashi Tharoor Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
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    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • George Orwell Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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