#freed

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#battle #between #checks #culture #freedom

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#duties #freed #perform #positive #them

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#full #gain #paid #price

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. ↗

— Tertullian

#because #cannot #nothing #out #parcel

Freedom is such a gift. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#gift #such

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#art #children #christianity #contrast #etc

Freedom without limits is just a word. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#just #limits #without #word

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won. ↗

— Pam Grier

#experiencing #fighting #freedoms #more #women

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion