“By communicating your needs with a man, you need to make a “request.” This gives him freedom from his feelings. When you… — Alex Altman Copy Share Image
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“... meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In love lies liberation – in love lies emancipation – in love lies absolution. Love yourself, love your fellow beings, love your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Despite all deliberation, sense, insight, and sober reason, I could not fail to recognize within myself the furtive and yet—ashamed as it… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Any nation allowing its people the right of freedom of speech is powerless to defend itself against enemies masquerading as patriotic; and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
“When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish,… — SOREN KIERKEGAARD Copy Share Image
“I think weird people have more freedom. If that makes sense. Like people expect them to be weird and different whereas if… — Anonymous Rachel Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“My life was not meant to be an example to copy. Being my follower is not trying to 'be like Jesus,' it… — Wm. Paul Young Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image