#free

Give me wings or I will make them. Either way I will fly. ↗

— Céline

#freedom #metaphor #freedom

If you fall in love you lose your freedom. ↗

— Ravneet Dhami

#freedom

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#freedom

Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #shane-collins #free

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#free

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#trolls #free

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#destiny #johnnie-marcone #free

A free people ought...to be armed ↗

— George Washington

#right-to-bear-arms #second-amendment #free

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#does #election #free #free election #masters

People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action. All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right. Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#human-rights #freedom