#freed

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. ↗

— Karl Popper

#make #must #only #other #plan

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom #art

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice. ↗

— Kate Horsley

#freedom #power #teaching #truth #art

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#followed #freedom #grieving #incredible #lightness

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #enough #learned #once #rules

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#freedom #i #liked #more #painting

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#continuous #economic #evolving #fact #final