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«Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
beliefs, clash, clashed, clashes, clashing, common, customs, essential, fearing, freethinker, Freethinkers, in his right mind, in their right minds, minds, prejudice, privileges, Rights and privileges, state, state of mind, The Clash, willing
«Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.»
«A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
a people, loses, principles, privileges, soon, values
«And thus it ever is: so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when she dares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, a»
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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dares, endeavors, exalt, labors, privileges, Rights and privileges, unquestioned
«If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourse»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
basely, contending, engaged, inestimable, inviolate, pledged, privileges
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
confined, human species, one species, privileges, species
«Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality»
«Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
belonged, developments, dreamed, firmly, instance, privileges, Scientific progress, technical
«Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
of age, plaything, playthings, privileges, retain
«Equal rights for all, special privileges for none»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
Equal rights, privileges, Rights and privileges
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