#free

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#childfree #legacy #beauty

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#love #women #freedom

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. ↗

— Guy Finley

#change #found #freedom #freedom from #need

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-speech #liberty #business

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones. ↗

— Mark Matteson

#attention #awareness #be-aware #habits #inspirational

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#failure #freedom #freedom

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human-rights #limitations #personal-autonomy #personal-responsibility #freedom

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#freedom

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#also #believe #comment #freedom of speech #i

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#believe #firing #freedom #i #professors