#do

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#freedom #giving #freedom

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. ↗

— Charles Wright Mills

#freedom #freedom

Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceable assembly must remain sacrosanct. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-expression #peace #freedom

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#freedom

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#liberty #winning #freedom

I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened. ↗

— Toba Beta

#preach #freedom

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#free-speech #freedom

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom. ↗

— Tara Brach

#emotional-healing #meditation #freedom

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#liberty #tyranny #freedom

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#freedom #gold #libertarianism #freedom