#free

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it? ↗

— Michel Templet

#freedom-of-speech #politics #freedom

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#grace #freedom

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game, I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#game #jamie-weise #liberation #world #freedom

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#freedom

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 ↗

— Thomas Merton

#liberty #freedom

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #slavery #forgiveness

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be. ↗

— Ahmed Toufiq

#freedom

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect. ↗

— Maurice Bucaille

#islam #truth #freedom

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humbleness #humility #freedom