{"quotes":[{"text":"Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no need to watch the news because there is no need to listen to the lies! And you already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["free-press","free-press","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-the-press","freedom-of-thought","government","media","media-bias","media-distortion","media-lies","media-manipulation","mehmet-murat-ildan","news","newspapers"],"id":52739,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["confidence","freedom","freedom-of-judgement","freedom-of-opinion","lessons-learned-in-life","self-assurance","self-esteem-101","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":68125,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.","author":"United Nations","tags":["borders","censorship","civil-rights","communication","encroachment","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","frontiers","government","human-rights","information","international-community","liberty","surveillance"],"id":112930,"author_id":"United+Nations"},{"text":"Remember, we all make our work available in a commercial transaction, the terms of which we, ourselves, dictate. If we give it away for free, that’s our decision, and there is no refuge in the lame defense, “what do you want for nothing?” The buyer does not waive his right to express his opi.","author":"Pete Morin","tags":["criticism","free-books","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-speech","reviewers","reviews","self-publishing","spas","writing"],"id":145859,"author_id":"Pete+Morin"},{"text":"The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes imposs.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["censorship","criticism","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","immunity","liberty","sacrosanct-ideas"],"id":181900,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately... These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.].","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["american-independence","chains","freedom-of-opinion","hope","ignorance","light-of-science","monkish","reason","science","superstition"],"id":198706,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god’s world.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["break-free","duty","duty-and-attitude","duty-in-life","duty-in-this-world","duty-privilege","duty","free","free-spirit","free-spirit","free-yourself","free-yourself-from-negativity","free-yourself-from-the-past","freedom","freedom-fighter","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-opinion","freedom","improve-your-mind","improve-yourself","improvement","liberation","liberation","liberation-war","personal-freedom","personal-liberty","underdog","underdog","underdogs"],"id":206788,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["critical-thinker","critical-thinking","democracy","education","freedom","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-the-press","freedom-of-thought","independence-of-thought","independent-thinking","independent-thought","indocrination","liberation","mental-slavery","slavery"],"id":265220,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","break-free","duty","duty-and-attitude","duty-in-life","duty-in-this-world","duty-privilege","duty","free","free-spirit","free-spirit","free-yourself","free-yourself-from-negativity","free-yourself-from-the-past","freedom","freedom-fighter","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-opinion","freedom","improve-your-mind","improve-yourself","improvement","irony-of-revolution","liberation","liberation","liberation-war","oppressor","oppressor","opression","personal-freedom","personal-liberty","poor-people","revolution","revolution","survival","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","underdog","underdog","underdogs"],"id":279108,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["fascist","fascist-values","fascists","freedom","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-opinion","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-the-press","freedom-of-thought","freedom","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","sacred","think","thinking","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":310671,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}