#free

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-thought #individuality #freedom

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be ↗

— James Baldwin

#liberty #freedom

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged ↗

— Rumi

#religious-freedom #tolerance #freedom

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#freedom

Laws are silent in times of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#human-rights #war #freedom

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#freedom #liberty #freedom

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#freedom #privacy #respect #solitude #freedom

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #freedom