“The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced… — Kira Cochrane Copy Share Image
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long.… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings put it this way: “Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so do all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
“While watching the revelry in the Barn, I'd had an epiphany. Parties weren't just about who was who and being seen. It… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
“Wise women know what to hold onto and what to release, and how to walk confidently in their choices—no regrets, no apologies,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention ad awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“You need to allow her the freedom to go where she wants to go. If she wants to come back to you,… — Tom McAllister Copy Share Image
“I am reminded once again that the best things about America are the little things, the little freedoms that Americans don't think… — Laura Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The world is inherently chaotic, unstable and can change on a whim, which is why a Buddhist turns inward and strives to… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
