#freed

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#freedom-of-thought #will #willpower #freedom

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#freedom

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason. ↗

— Naomi Ragen

#god-s-will #freedom

Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/ ↗

— Muhammed Bhikha

#faith #freedom #inspirational #religious #faith

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#politics #privilege #freedom

Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do with whether or not freedom and good are real or worth destroying ourselves for. Meaning must come from the individual in touch with his or her own soul. To discover how to recover our sanity and freedom, we must know ourselves from within. ↗

— Carlton D. Pearson

#freedom

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space. My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable where in fashion.... "Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Centre; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed" - we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again in five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #open-mindedness #politics #freedom

Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom #frihed #translation #freedom

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#corporate-culture #corporations #encroachment #freedom #government

For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No. ↗

— John Valentine

#skinny-dipping #freedom