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He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the world was replete with endless possibilities. He'd thought it a mistake to choose so early in life and embrace the present good. He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time. ("Old Haunts") ↗

— Richard Matheson

#love #opportunity #freedom

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#ninety-nine-percent #ows #power #society #freedom

Divorced?' 'Separated.' He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty") ↗

— John Crowley

#freedom #marriage #women #freedom

الحكاية أسلوب معروف قرّب..جرّب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب أسلوب معروف لا تشرّق مني ولا تغرّب بالوصفة دي تعرف تحكمهم وتلملمهم من أي طروف إعمل قديس واحفظ أحوالهم واتشرب وباركهم ..بس املاهم خوف!! حاور..داور..ناور.. املاهاحلقات ومحاور حط الأعصاب في التلاجة بالراحة لحد ما تهلكمهم.. واعمل انك عامل معروف.!! هدد بالضرب بلاش تضرب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب يتعبوا..ويكلوا..ويملوا يتسرسبوا واحد.. والتاني ماشي في ضله وانت افضل شوف افضل لنهاية الشوط كله واللي يشكلك شكله مرة بحزم..ومرة بتحسيس أسلوب معروف البشر الخاطي.. والقديس!! ↗

— عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

#freedom #freedom

I hate when women give me that look. That overlook. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ignore #women #funny

Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems. ↗

— Brian Fikkert

#gospel-truth #humanity #poor-people #when-helping-hurts #freedom

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. ↗

— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#freedom-of-speech #important-yearning-constitution #liberty #freedom

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#corporate-culture #corporations #encroachment #freedom #government

Kamil thinks to himself that these are eyes that see everything, ravenous eyes. He feels a pang of longing for the omnivorous freedom of a child's appetite for life, not yet disciplined to distinguish raw from cooked, feasting without caring whether life is served at a table or from a tray on the floor. ↗

— Jenny White

#freedom