#freedom

There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-thought #peace #beauty

Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear? ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#freedom #goodness #kindness #liberty #morality

Pain eventually leads to freedom. ↗

— Minhal Mehdi

#freedom

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid ↗

— Lucian of Samosata

#freedom #historian #history #business

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #prison #freedom

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#demonstrate #freedom #liberty #reason #change

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom #change

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

#change

Tell me what you’re looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#freedom #murder #relationships #change

Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free . . . and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide: fasten it open! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#outdoors #wilderness #change