#free

El hombre ha nacido libre y en todas partes se halla encadenado. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#political-philosophy #freedom

I know I have to give her that freedom. Otherwise I’ve just caged her, haven’t I? And what kind of love would it be, that only came from inside a box? ↗

— Jane Lovering

#freedom #love #freedom

I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs I will come home to find the dogs have been ... given a swim in the above-ground pool, dressed in tutus, provided with hair weaves. What I will not find is that the dogs have been fed. 'I thought you wanted me to free the dogs,' says Poppet whose school district is not spending quite what D.C.'s is, thanks to voter rejection of the last school bond referendum. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#dogs #feeding #freedom #humour #middle-school

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it. ↗

— Pearl Cleage

#freedom #inspirational #liberating #pearl #wisdom

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#law #living #freedom

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment. ↗

— Barack Obama

#americans #innocence #freedom

Speak up for peace, speak up for justice, speak up for freedom, Speak up your mind for truth and help make our world a better place. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #freedom

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #freedom #young-adult #young-adult-fantasy

Оттогава все те владее този твой момчешки трепет по коне, този детски страх и ликуващ копнеж едновременно по бясно препускане, по развята грива на воля, по сините далечини. ↗

— Blaga Dimitrova

#freedom

I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom-of-thought #freedom