#ny

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city ↗

— Sophocles

#tyranny #freedom

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#fate #free #predestination #will #freedom

No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #fate #freedom #human-rights #humanity

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

I Google myself to find out who I am as a person. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#google #identity-crisis #person #funny

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do. ↗

— Bill Willingham

#bigby-wolf #freedom #storyville #tyranny #werewolf-governments

I'd rather have rabies than be in love." "Why?" "Because at least you can get over rabies with some shots. ↗

— Shelly Laurenston

#humor-relationships #funny

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#liberty #tyranny #freedom