It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“A MORNING RITUAL “Ask yourself the following first thing in the morning: • What am I lacking in attaining freedom from passion?… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“Also, the Christian worldview has made foundational contributions to our own culture that may not be readily apparent. The deep background for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“David’s experience of unmitigated blessing from the hand of God might have lulled David into thinking that he was not accountable and… — David R. Bauer Copy Share Image
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the "free world" (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the… — E.P. Thompson Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Talking about independence makes me wonder, Who is truly independent in this world? A farmer who grows food is dependent on a… — Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." —… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found… — Nik Ripken Copy Share Image
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Would I die for freedom? For love? I liked to think I had that in me, but how can you die for… — Amy Talkington Copy Share Image
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
As we celebrate our freedom, let us not forget to thank all those who have fought for the country to give us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“another option exists for those who want both peace and freedom: political defiance” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Over, under, around, or through, there's always a way. You don't give up and you never give in. They can scar your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens here, every choice involving you is mine to make, not yours. So from this moment on, you’re to stop… — Sara Fawkes Copy Share Image
“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image