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Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#moral-absolutism #morality #police #privilege #responsibility

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. ↗

— George Alexiou

#happiness #inspirational #self-help #spirituality #surrender

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship. ↗

— Steve Brown

#joy #laughter #religion #worship #freedom

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#freedom

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#creativity #freedom #writer #freedom

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence. ↗

— Daniel Gilbert

#freedom #ideas #society #freedom

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is. ↗

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#happiness #inspirational #joy #inspirational

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#first #first step #getting #going #somewhere

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. ↗

— Sivananda

#be patient #failures #good #now #patient