#in

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #because #evil #get #going

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”) ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#dissident #expatriate #lierature #writing #art

Even If You own a Kingdom, You will be a Slave If Your Life has no Liberation and Freedom. ↗

— Rvm

#freedom

Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear. ↗

— Marie Clair

#freedom

Free zero-point energy doesn't exist in an illusion of freedom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nothing-for-free #zero-point-energy #freedom

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#freedom

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves. ↗

— Louise Bernikow

#friendship #friendship

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#missing #relationships #friendship

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#haters #life-and-living #friendship

Sincere deeds invite new friends. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sincerity #friendship