#dom

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#freedom

Laws are silent in times of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#human-rights #war #freedom

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#freedom #liberty #freedom

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#freedom #privacy #respect #solitude #freedom

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #freedom

The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#greed #materialism #needs #selfishness #vice

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#freedom #government #participation #politics #responsibility

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart. ↗

— Henry Miller

#relationships #women #freedom

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophical #philosophy #poetry #wisdom #wisdom-quote

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman