#free

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#commerce #depends #diffusion #education #foreign

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#forward #freedom #justice #never #our

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#ambition #anything #been #could #free

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#free-spirit #free-thought #madness #dreams

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #freedom #dreams

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#freedom #greatest #himself #individual #individual freedom

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#buy #companies #could #free #good

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#freedom #life #meaning #truth #freedom

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#brought #conquer #conquerors #control #freedom