#free

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning. ↗

— David F. Ford

#freedom #modernity #paradox #education

Freedom is the right to live as we wish. ↗

— Epictetus

#live #right #wish

Human beings crave freedom at their core. ↗

— John Ensign

#beings #core #crave #human #human beings

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. ↗

— Cory Booker

#economic growth #emphasizes #essential #fair #free

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#constraints #euphoric #everything #freedom #gone

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition. ↗

— Anna Eshoo

#competition #free #free market #had #i

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#free #free will #i #i think #important

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. ↗

— Donald Evans

#country #creating #debate #economic #economic growth

In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom. ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#eça-de-queirós #júlio-simóes #freedom

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#karma #karmic #love #meditation #personal-transformation