#dom

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#inspirational #john-stuart-mill #truth #freedom

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#always #ancient #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom

This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In the name of kindness This is democracy by the whip And the fear of chains With a whirlwind at its core ↗

— Abdul Salam Zaeef

#freedom

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#perseverance #freedom

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others. ↗

— David Seabury

#considerate #himself #others #seldom #who

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #society #freedom

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#destroy #great #kingdom #press #small

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#expression #freedom-of-expression #rationality #thought #freedom

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy. ↗

— Jim Thompson

#freedom