Anton Chekhov Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Inspiration Quotes

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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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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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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Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

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Freedom and slavery are mental states.

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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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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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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

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