A Quote by Gao Xingjian

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

Gao Xingjian

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Basic Freedom Prerequisite Writing

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Gao Xingjian
Chinese - Novelist
Born: January 4, 1940

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Gao Xingjian

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Saul Alinsky

Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself.

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Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

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Abi Morgan

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

Zygmunt Bauman

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Warren Farrell

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Mitt Romney

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

Rutger Bregman

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Ted Yoho

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Margaret Sanger

[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.