#r

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#better #common #delusion #make #talking

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#freedom

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. ↗

— John Updike

#free-speech #politics #united-states #united-states-constitution #war

Der Endzweck des Staates ist [...] im Grund die Freiheit. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#freedom #rechtsstaat #freedom

And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other strategies, when we had considered them, we concluded that, in terms of overall effectiveness, they were not sound strategies, which is why we enacted the one we are now embarked upon, which our enemies would like to see us fail, due to they hate freedom,' we will wait to see if the anchorperson cracks up, or chokes back a sob of disgust, and if he or she does not, we'll feel a bit insane, and therefore less confident, and therefore more passive. ↗

— George Saunders

#pages- #freedom

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#beauty #california #climbing #female-author #heaven

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. ↗

— Will Durant

#liberty #freedom

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#freedom

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living. ↗

— Albert Camus

#freedom #living #freedom

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville #funny