#fr

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #responsibility #sartre #freedom

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#freedom

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. ↗

— Jim C. Hines

#stupidity #freedom

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#agitation #dissent #liberties #power #radicalism

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#tyranny #freedom

‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#freedom #freedom-of-thought #freedom

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom ↗

— Helen Thompson

#horses #thompson #freedom

Secrecy begets tyranny. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#freedom #freedom