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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #poverty #freedom

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself? ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#liberty #war-on-drugs #freedom

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#narcissism #freedom

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #moment #wishes

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#freedom #repression #death

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery ↗

— Tomas Jefferson

#freedom

All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #justice #freedom

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#freedom #jesus #scripture #the-truth-will-set-you-free #truth

Your field of focus determines what you find in life. ↗

— T. Harv Eker

#freedom

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#government #freedom