#freedom

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom #leaving #freedom

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#inspirational #president #freedom

Liberties aren't given, they are taken. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#freedom

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#freedom #zen #freedom

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#ironic #rights #war #wwii #yossarian

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248) ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #love #relationships #freedom

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #freedom

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #inspirational #lateral-thinking #philosophy #rationalism

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #freedom

You have to choose your future regrets. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#future #life #philosophy-of-religion #rationality #wisdom