#ed

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#excitement #forbidden #sneaking-out #freedom

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#human #freedom

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true. ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#freedom #truth #freedom

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divinity #faith #freedom-of-thought #god

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#freedom #liars #liberty #poem #poetry

الحريّة: ليست (عُريّاٍ).. الحريّة: أن ترتدي من الملابس و (الأفكار) ما تشاء.. وعلى الآخرين احترام ذوقك فيما ترتديه. ↗

— محمد الرطيان

#الحرية #الرطيان #محاولة-ثالثة #freedom

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#security #traditions #freedom

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ↗

— United States Congress

#freedom

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised. ↗

— Sabrina Childress

#freedom #revolution #sabrina-childress #sex #sexual-freedom