#freedom

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#love #women #freedom

Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head; And a shout ascends on high, For men's souls are tired of the Turks, And their wicked ways and works, That have made of Ak-Hissar A city of the plague; And the loud, exultant cry That echoes wide and far Is: "Long live Scanderbeg! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#freedom #liberation #sacrifice #freedom

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#freedom #government #leaders #people #rule

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection. ↗

— James A. Michener

#money #wealth #freedom

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#law #religion #freedom

The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry; the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless. ↗

— Decretum Gratiani

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-speech #liberty #business

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way. ↗

— Erik Christian Haugaard

#choice #freedom #responsibility #faith

Remembering to be conscious is the beginning of inner peace and freedom. ↗

— Gabriella Kortsch

#inner-peace #freedom

Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#sleep #soul #freedom