Quote by Rowan Atkinson
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. – Rowan Atkinson

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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Society
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Confronting a stadium audience, you cant see the whites of their eyes. Its just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you cant see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. – Rowan Atkinson

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Home
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Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person youd want to have dinner with. On the subject of Mr. Bean – Rowan Atkinson

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Guests
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Freedom rings where opinions clash. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Freedom

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. – Corazon Aquino

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Freedom

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Freedom

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior. – Walt Whitman

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Freedom

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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift

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Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. – F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

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It is easy to be independent when youve got money. But to be independent when you havent got a thing, thats the Lords test. – Mahalia Jackson

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