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Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. In this sense, every church is a cemetery and every creed an epitaph. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#death

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#human-rights #politics #totalitarianism #freedom

Passion is the heart set free to pursue that which is truly worthy. Those who set their hearts on that which is most worthy live with joy-filled abandonment. Their hearts are both seized and satisfied with ambition only for Jesus to be ardently worshipped. That love comes to dominate and integrate all other desires so as to live in the freedom of single-minded purpose. ↗

— Perspectives Sutdy Guide

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He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#freedom #grace #gracefulness #love #marriage

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. ↗

— Voltaire

#death

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#independence #liberation #liberty #women #freedom

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #love-yourself #out-of-the-box #freedom

The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well, illusive with an I and elusive with an E. At best, narcotics do no more than promote bonhomie and give you a temporary taste of what freedom might be like; and drugs take you into another sub-level of, or sub-culture in, the same old game. The same old game, but with additional consequences. And at worst, well ... suffice it to say that you really, really do not want to go there. ↗

— H.M. Forester

#escape #reality #freedom

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36). ↗

— Cynthia Heald

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Remember not all Germans were Nazis. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

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