“There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The thing is, we are never free. Death always stops us from doing certain things and we can do nothing about it.… — HQLinesme Copy Share Image
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given… if it does exist, it exists to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“I can see that my choices were never truly mine alone--and that is how it should be, that to assert otherwise is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“He thus didn’t find himself outside the limits of his experience; he was high above it. His distaste for himself remained down… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“People like to catch lights and put them inside their jars, so they can say they're lightkeepers. They like to capture bolts… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In a state where “liberty” is based on the “rights” of each individual there can never be true justice. But in a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The true lover is not the one who says: "You need to be by my side and I need to take care… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A major aspect of liberation management is to harness the edgy and non-conformist energy of workers. Large firms, the advice says, ought… — Carl Cederstrom Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
“One benefit of getting older is that you no longer care how eccentric you look. I have embraced this in recent years,… — Una McCormack Copy Share Image
“I know some people freak out about not having plans. But do you realize? Not having a plan means freedom. You’re free… — Dawn Lanuza Copy Share Image
“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“For many reasons, Dear,” Delia said in a soothing voice. “We are tired of running , tired of traveling. It is time… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
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