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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. (Emperor Hirohito )
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. (Emperor Hirohito )
For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. (Emperor Hirohito )
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? (Emperor Hirohito )
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. (Emperor Hirohito )
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. (Emperor Hirohito )
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. (Emperor Hirohito )
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. (Emperor Hirohito )
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world. (Emperor Hirohito )
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. (Emperor Hirohito )
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. (Emperor Hirohito )
You can only be free if I am free. (Emperor Hirohito )
The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more. (Emperor Hirohito )
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace. (Emperor Hirohito )
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. (Emperor Hirohito )
He who dares not (reason), is a slave. (Emperor Hirohito )
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway. (Emperor Hirohito )
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