A Quote by Max Stirner

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Max Stirner

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Max Stirner
German - Philosopher
October 25, 1806 - June 26, 1856

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Federico Fellini

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

Margaret Thatcher

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Herbert Croly

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

Nelson Mandela

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

Niall Ferguson

Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.

Robert H. Jackson

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

Alek Wek

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

Rose Wilder Lane

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Rob Lowe

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Jomo Kenyatta

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.

Daniel Lubetzky

We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.

Tan Cheng Bock

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Henry Wallich

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

James Baldwin

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Gretchen Rubin

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