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Freedom Across the country, we are seeing sharp new limits on the rights and privileges of Americans. And despite a national mythology that ties the threat of tyranny to the machinations of a distant, central government, the actual threat to American freedom is coming from the states. … The plan … is to shrink and degrade the very notion of national citizenship and to leave us, once again, at the total mercy of the states. It is to place fundamental questions of political freedom and bodily autonomy into the hands of of our local bullies and petty tyrants, whose whims they call “freedom,” whose urge to dominate they call “liberty.” Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, May 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom An overdose of freedom is lethal to the state. Anything that is medicine can be poison. It is all about the dosage. Vladislav Surkov, founding father of Putinism, architect of Russia's “sovereign democracy” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom But unlike external freedom, internal freedom cannot be guaranteed. Some people are independent-minded by nature; others are born conformists. All that politics can do is to provide more favourable conditions for those who want to choose their own path in life to do so. David Miller, Political Philisophy © 2018 Kwiple.com
Freedom In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Timothy Snyder, Political Philisophy © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom  For a moment we see ourselves as puppets  indeed [as being manipulated by society]. But then we grasp a decisive difference between the puppet theater and our own drama.  Unlike the puppets, we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first step toward freedom. Peter L. Berger, An Invitation to Sociology © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows. R. H. Tawney, Equality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom Freedom is about each of us, yet none of us is free without help. Individual rights require common effort. Timothy Snyder, Malady © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom Freedom is not about having unshackled hands.  Freedom is about having unshackled minds. Volodymyr Zelensky © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. One hasn't got to have an enormous military machine in order to be unfree when it's simpler to be asleep, when it's simpler to be apathetic, when it's simpler, in fact, not to want to be free, to think that something else is more important. James Baldwin, “Notes for a Hypothetical Novel” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom  Freedom isn't America's gift to the world. It is God's gift to mankind. George W. Bush © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom I tire of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. from “Freedom [1]” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Timothy Snyder, Political Philisophy © 2021 Kwiple.com
Freedom Looks like by now Folks ought to know It's hard to beat Hitler Protecting Jim Crow. Freedom's not just To be won Over There. It means Freedom at home, too — Now — right here! from “How About It, Dixie” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom Never have we been so free. Never have we felt so powerless. Zygmunt Bauman © 2020 Kwiple.com
Freedom There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program. There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles. There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit. There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class. There is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, May 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Freedom There are two options. The first is Anglo-Saxon. I give you the menu, you can choose what you want. The second option is Russian. There is no choice. The chef chooses for you, because he knows better what you want. I suggest the Russian option. Vladislav Surkov, founding father of Putinism, architect of Russia's “sovereign democracy” © 2021 Kwiple.com