#reed

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. ↗

— John Boehner

#back #celebrate #constitution #earned #economic

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #freedom #himself #huge #huge number

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #else #live #nothing #right

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#being #chance #correct #crazy #divides

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning. ↗

— David F. Ford

#freedom #modernity #paradox #education

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#love #love is #lovers #many #say

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#becomes #ceases #down #exist #freedom

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#constant #freedom #hath #heart #whoso

Freedom is the right to live as we wish. ↗

— Epictetus

#live #right #wish

Human beings crave freedom at their core. ↗

— John Ensign

#beings #core #crave #human #human beings