Quote by Germaine Greer
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. – Germaine Greer

Other quotes by Germaine Greer

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer

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alone
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. – Germaine Greer

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War
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The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. – Germaine Greer

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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. – Joichi Ito

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The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. – John Boehner

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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. – Alexander Meiklejohn

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Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

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We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code. – will.i.am

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There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. – Rudy Giuliani

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