No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
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Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.
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Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.
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If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
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Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
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A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free.
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With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
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You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
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We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.
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I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
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I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
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I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
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I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
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I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
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I so love to barter and trade. And sex goes for a lot these days!
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Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking.
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