#dom

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be. ↗

— Ahmed Toufiq

#freedom

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect. ↗

— Maurice Bucaille

#islam #truth #freedom

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humbleness #humility #freedom

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. ↗

— Tacitus

#freedom-of-speech #freedom

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#excitement #forbidden #sneaking-out #freedom

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#human #freedom

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true. ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#freedom #truth #freedom

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divinity #faith #freedom-of-thought #god