#reed

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #morality #freedom

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#noremorse #terrorism #terrorist #war #freedom

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#believed #did #disagreed #even #father

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. ↗

— Clarence Day

#creeds #discovery #dogma #religion #truth

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#freedom #individuality #liberty #society #uniformity

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#monoculture #thoughts-on-life #experience

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #freedom #liberalism #freedom

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Colossians

#christian #freedom #god #love #together