#freed

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#freedom

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

It is more important to be free than to be happy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#happiness #tom-robbins #freedom

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#immigration #freedom

സ്വതന്ത്രനാണു ഞാനെന്നൊക്കെ പറയുന്നതിൽ വാസ്തവത്തിൽ എന്തുകഴമ്പുണ്ട്? എത്രയോ മുൻ വിധികളുടെ അദ്രശ്യ ചരടുകളാൽ നിയന്ത്രിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന പാവക്കുത്തുകള്ളിലെ നിസ്സഹായരായ പാവകളെപ്പൊലെയാണു പലപ്പോഴും നമ്മൾ. ↗

— Fr.Boby Jose Kattikad

#malayalam #freedom

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #poverty #freedom

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself? ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#liberty #war-on-drugs #freedom

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#narcissism #freedom

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#freedom #repression #death

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery ↗

— Tomas Jefferson

#freedom