Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ― George Orwell

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It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. - Gary Ackerman

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde

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Freedom can’t be contained within a paradigm that is individualistic. One cannot be free alone: freedom is collective. Freedom is about transforming conditions so that communities can live in more habitable conditions. — Angela Davis

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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! — Patrick Henry

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