#freed

When we learn to live well in this life with nothing left unsaid or undone we find peace, freedom and full self-expression. With that, we are capable of anything. ↗

— Jacqueline Harrison

#freedom

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#belief #free #free market #freedom #itself

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. ↗

— Aristotle

#equality #freedom #equality

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#freedom #freedom-of-speech #politics #freedom

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#liberty #patriot-act #politics #freedom

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#freedom

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#dismiss #fallacious #freedom #give #must

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ↗

— Willa Cather

#condition #every #foreign #freedom #freedom from

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#back #beginning #being #being famous #famous