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No Freedom Quotes

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
- John Calvin

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains.
--Doroga
- Jim Butcher

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.
- Peter J Carroll

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death...
- Virginia Woolf

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
- Ursula K Le Guin

It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one another. And that responsibility is our freedom. To avoid it, would be to lose our freedom. Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
- Ursula K Le Guin

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
- Friedrich Ebert

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
- Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
- Vladimir Lenin

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
- John Locke

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
- Rosa Luxemburg

There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.
- Scott Lynch

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
- Thomas Peterffy

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
- Buddy Rich

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
- Mitt Romney

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
- Bill Wyman

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