#reed

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birds #breeds #commonly #existence #fall

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#freedom #going #liberty #should #side

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#bad #bad character #believed #character #go

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#exactly #fit #i #models #new

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#decisions #democracy #essence #expression #freedom

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ↗

— George Orwell

#ignorance #peace #slavery #strength #war

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attempts #because #cannot #does #free

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beginning #cause #determined #existence #fact

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#constitute #curse #day #economic #economic growth

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

#breeds #chaos #habit #life #often