#freed

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. ↗

— David Graeber

#economics #libertarianism #markets #politics #freedom

I believe in looseness. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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الحرية لا يمكن أن تعطى على جرعات، فالمرء إما أن يكون حرّاً أو لا يكون حرّاً ↗

— نيلسون مانديلا

#freedom

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside? ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

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Freedom isn't free. But there are some really great coupons if you know where to look. Buy one liberty, get the next one half off. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#liberty #freedom

The Foundation of Freedom is Unity ↗