Francis Bacon Quotes, Art Quotes, Freedom Quotes

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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