#freedom

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance. ↗

— Glen Cook

#freedom

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#doing #equals #experience #freedom #iraqi

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#absolutely #also #brothers #browning #care

Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs. ↗

— Soetsu Yanagi

#beauty

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#conformists #democracy #dissidents #freedom #gives

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#determined #ego #free #freedom #fuller

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#clear #communications #critical #distraction #exaggeration

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#failure #freedom #freedom

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. ↗

— Tara Brach

#perfectionism #freedom

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. ↗

— Mark Twain

#agnosticism #atheism #atheist #freedom #god