"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
-Jim Morrison
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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.“
-Jim Morrison
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"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."
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"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
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"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."
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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
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"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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