#thou

I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom-of-thought #freedom

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#philosophy #thought #freedom

Der Gedanke ist ein Vogel, der Raum braucht und in einem Käfig von Worten zwar seine Flügel ausbreiten, aber nicht fliegen kann. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#thought #freedom

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#freedom #life #memory #movement #past

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought." [Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (00-795), 198 F.3d 1083, affirmed.] ↗

— Anthony M. Kennedy

#free-speech #freedom #freedom-of-thought #liberty #freedom

She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once." I shrugged, "fine. I said'. . . just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling. ↗

— Michael Siemsen

#father-humphrey #group-talk #lol #morgan #morgan-mother

To the knights of faith nobody believes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #faith #knights #literature

Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012) ↗

— Shaun F. Messick

#agency #faith #father #god #quotes

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#foreign #freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom-of-thought #home

Thinking is the most overrated human activity. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#humor #thought #humor