Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
Interpretation
Freedom is a powerful motivator and essential for human fulfillment.
Natan Sharansky's quote underscores the idea that the desire for freedom is a fundamental human longing that transcends cultures and societies. It suggests that the pursuit of freedom is invigorating and has the overwhelming ability to inspire change, empower individuals, and unite people in their quest for autonomy and self-determination.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, one might quote this to inspire the audience.
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.
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