“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The end of all this was that Rhodes resented the truth when it was told him, and detested any who showed independence… — Catherine Radziwill Copy Share Image
“She knows that she was named for Molly Molasses, a famous Penobscot Indian born the year before America declared its independence from… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free… — Melanie Shankle Copy Share Image
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because… — Vittorio Vandelli Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“But one does not liberate someone by alienating them. Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If/Then: The Dagger Parable by Stewart Stafford I handed her the dagger solemnly, She took it with a wounded look, Behind my… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Opinion polls suggested the Scottish referendum on independence on September 18th was now too close to call. The three leaders of Britain’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“John Dewey (1859–1952), among the foremost progressive thinkers. Dewey, like Croly and Wilson, among others, claimed that progressivism was, in essence, a… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
“The path of the spiritual revolutionary is a long-term and gradual journey toward awakening. If you are looking for a quick fix… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
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“I mean, contrary to the contemporary version of it, classical liberalism (which remember was pre-capitalist, and in fact, anti-capitalist) focused on the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You see,’ he said, ‘I always imagine our being really happy with some few other people—a little freedom with people.’ She pondered… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
![“The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely…” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/277/fernando-pessoa-177_bed_the-principle-tragedy-of-my-life-is-like_2746196.jpg)
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