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...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. ↗


— Arthur Koestler


#darkness-at-noon #liberty #politics #soviet-union #freedom

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty? ↗


— Nikos Kazantzakis


#liberty #passion #sacrifice #freedom

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom. ↗


— Eric Metaxas


#obedience #freedom

I can only be free when the other people around me are free. ↗


— Jordan Jones


#being-yourself #no-freedom #slavery-power #freedom

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


— Jesse Ventura


#liberty #war-on-drugs #freedom

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. ↗


— Rousseau Jean-Jacques


#freedom #liberty #weak #food

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗


— Iain Pears


#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives. ↗


— Emil Cioran


#individuality #liberalism #philosophy #freedom

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. ↗


— Joseph C. Morecraft III


#confederacy #confederate-states-of-america #freedom #liberty #reformed-faith

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. ↗


— Ralph Ellison


#freedom #juneteenth #liberty #slavery #freedom






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