#pol

Wenn wir uns erinnern, wie rassisch, religiös und politisch Verfolgte, die vom sicheren Tod bedroht waren, oft vor geschlossenen Grenzen anderer Staaten standen, werden wir vor denen, die heute wirklich verfolgt sind und bei uns Schutz suchen, die Tür nicht verschließen." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#bigotry #freedom #intolerance #persecution #politics

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind. ↗

— Olli Jalonen

#government #interrogation #politics #torture #freedom

The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans whose shortcuts to an earthly paradise he debunks. The less these quacks are able to advance plausible objections to an economist’s argument, the more furiously do they insult them. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#politics #freedom

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #liberty #life #politics #taxes

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy. ↗

— Malalai Joya

#politics #progress #rights #freedom

long life is not necessary to do some thing great and extra ordinary bagat singh proved it.. real indian hero with help of his revolutionary brothers hats off to all of them... they fought for freedom ,to breath with there family, but after 66 years of independence I my self feel we slaved by our government only... we need war against them... ↗

— palash

#war #family

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences. ↗

— Tom King

#freedom

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC. ↗

— Julian Assange

#politics #russia #us #freedom

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning. ↗

— James Joyce

#politics #art

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#friendship #friendship