#reed

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#liberty #freedom

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religious-freedom #freedom

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world. ↗

— Clive Hamilton

#freedom #society #freedom

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#freedom

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons. ↗

— Karl Popper

#war #freedom

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices-and-consequences #free-will #freedom #freedom-of-choice #making-sense-of-the-world

That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#free #freedom #infinite #freedom

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ethics #free-trade #freedom

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#war #freedom

I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will rue the day you ever set foot in the Plains. For every inch you advance I'll exact gallons of Mukthar blood. I guarantee that there will be not one family of the Bear Mukthars or they will mourn at least one of theirs. I guarantee that even if you are triumphant the fruits of victory will taste like dust in your mouth. I guarantee that if you fail to kill me today, you will meet me again. You will meet me at the Ximerionian border. You will meet me at every city, town, village, and hamlet. You will meet me on every Amirathan crossroad, on every hill. I will fight you with every sword at my command, with every arrow, with every dagger. I will fight you with pitchforks. I will fight you with the very rocks of the land you try to conquer. I will never, never, never give up. ~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed) ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#conflict #conqueror #fighting #freedom #survival