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Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#wilderness #freedom

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#freedom #human-rights #inspirational #justice #peace

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#education #freedom #education

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#inspirational #freedom

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#karmic #meditation #personal-transformation #soul #spiritual

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#dictatorship #fear #freedom #government #independent-thought

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#freedom #good-will #justice #liberty #freedom

Life calls the tune, we dance. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#determinism #fate #free #freedom #will

Music, my rampart and my only one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#inspirational #music #rampart #freedom

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#freedom #libertarianism #scope-of-government #freedom