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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #ralph-waldo-emerson #freedom

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#liberty #freedom

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#autonomy #freedom #laws #liberty #rebellion

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#discrimination #freedom #freedom

A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is. ↗

— Simon Napier-Bell

#freedom

It's more important to be free than to be happy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#happiness #freedom

Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see cruelty politely concealed in data, madness taken for granted and even honored, truth buried away and rotting in all that ex cathedra trivia--my God! something terrible is about to happen, and they have time to editorialize on mustaches, advertise pink cigarettes for weddings, and report on a lost parakeet! Ah, sometimes he just wants to ram the goddamn thing with his head in an all-out frontal attack, wants to destroy all this so-called history so that history can start again. ↗

— Robert Coover

#history #media #freedom

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rights #freedom

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. ↗

— Étienne de La Boétie

#freedom #peace #freedom

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#doom #judgement #prophecy #rebellion #speaking-up