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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. -- Harvey Milk
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. -- Chuck Schumer
Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world. -- Silvio Berlusconi
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. -- James D. Watson
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. -- Tom Robbins
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom. -- Margaret Atwood
I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom. -- Naomi Klein
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either. -- Rush Limbaugh
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. -- Jim Morrison
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back. -- Philip Yancey
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline. -- Maria Semple
I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts. -- Lindsay Duncan
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices. -- Harry Browne
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. -- Cormac McCarthy
Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice. -- Silvio Scaglia
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point. -- Gail Collins
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' -- Paul Ryan
We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt. -- Alexa Von Tobel
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. -- Chuck Schumer
Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom -- Albert Camus
What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion? -- Jeffrey Steingarten
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess -- Mother Teresa
The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive. -- Larry Niven
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them. -- Connie Willis
Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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