Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
Tom Robbins
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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the po...
NEAL BOORTZ It is more important to be free than to be happy.
TOM ROBBINS A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the po...
NEAL BOORTZ I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
BRUCE RAUNER If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the ...
NEAL BOORTZ Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courag...
PATRICK LENCIONI There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERICH FROMM Fortunately or unfortunately, Americans' freedom of choice includes the freedom to overeat.
LISA RICKARD Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
NEVIL SHUTE Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. Th...
TOM SMOTHERS Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this ...
MICHAEL NOVAK You have a real constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of s...
ELIZABETH CHENEY There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if ...
AMIR BUTLER I didn't falter and together we matched, step for step. Each swing of the sword was blocked, each st...
FREEDOM MATTHEWS Sharing is bliss
FREEDOM GOODBIRD Put it away or use it."
I chuckled at Butch's threat. Flipping the sword in the air, I caught i...
FREEDOM MATTHEWS I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
MAREK HLASKO If u can experience freedom when there is lot of uncertainty , then that is "REAL FREEDOM"
SAJI SAM VARGHESE At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious fre...
DAVID NOVAK I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the ...
SAM BROWNBACK You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
MALCOLM X Many Americans feel that they are losing their Freedom of Speech but what they are really seeking is...
E.R. ROCK Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
JOHN STEINBECK True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have th...
ROBERT DALLEK I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle i...
CHRIS EVANS Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about you...
BRENNAN MANNING People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel...
BILL KELLER If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defe...
NEAL BOORTZ I think a lot of Americans sometimes confuse freedom of speech with the idea that we have a right to...
DANIEL DREZNER You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... ...
HELMUT KOHL Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
MIKE TYSON You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be...
SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS I'm standing for real freedom.
TODD AKIN Whose service is perfect freedom.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to...
GUY FINLEY Freedom is humankind's greatest, most ennobling idea, and its surest antidote to terror and tyranny.
RICHARD TOFEL The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYI To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. W...
FATOS NANO Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform...
MARC ALMOND Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedo...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
YAIR LAPID What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as...
JOYCE MEYER We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.
JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to...
DAN SAVAGE There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
CHESTER BOWLES I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, ...
CAIO FONSECA It's the price you pay for freedom.
KYLIE HAWES Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord...
MOLLY IVINS Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is th...
ERIC HOFFER I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
JIMMY WALES متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع...
نزار قباني So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin...
MOLLY IVINS More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare,
BILL ARCHER Freedom isn't for wimps.
NEAL BOORTZ None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.
THERESA REBECK I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President...
RICHARD TRUMKA America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom...
BENAZIR BHUTTO A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
ESTHER DYSON The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than
the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
-Julia W-.
JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, f...
PATTI SMITH They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terr...
JOHN BOEHNER We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is fre...
RAFAEL CORREA The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. I...
TOMMY LEE Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...
SIGMUND FREUD Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or add...
OS GUINNESS We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. MENCKEN I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the...
ROBERT M. GATES It's a real honest-to-goodness hard-luck town in a lot of ways. But it's a hardy town. People are wi...
CHRIS DEAUX 'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
AHMET NECDET SEZNER We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the Fir...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ آیا مضحک تر از این مردم یافت می شود، که هیچ وقت از آزادی ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fig...
ALAN J. PAKULA Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
NELSON MANDELA The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with...
MARINO BACCARINI We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea o...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produ...
PRINCE The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility fo...
HARRY DEAN STANTON Your letter is nothing more than lip service to the idea of negotiations while you prepare your moti...
HENRY REICHARD The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD BARUCH The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD M. BARUCH A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
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TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
TOM ROBBINS