#om

Music, my rampart and my only one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#inspirational #music #rampart #freedom

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#faith #financial-freedom #giving #promise #sacrifice

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#freedom #libertarianism #scope-of-government #freedom

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons? ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#opression #freedom

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality. ↗

— Ron Paul

#freedom

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people. ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#free #freedom #love #others #sacrifice

Compassion is the religion of the heart. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#personal-transformation #religion #self-help #spiritual #spirituality

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#fatherhood #feminism #marriage #men #freedom

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#freedom #futility #mankind #freedom

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. ↗

— James Madison

#freedom #president #religion #freedom