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Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not intrusive, insofar as it is not really the other. Tolerance thus coincides with its opposite. My duty to be tolerant towards the other effectively means that I should not get too close to him or her, not intrude into his space—in short, that I should respect his intolerance towards my over-proximity. This is increasingly emerging as the central human right of advanced capitalist society: the right not to be ‘harassed’, that is, to be kept at a safe distance from others.


Slavoj Žižek


#freedom #the-other #attitude

What is an unconditional state?


Asa Don Brown


#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

Are you seeking to be offended?


Asa Don Brown


#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966)]


William O. Douglas


#freedom #government #privacy #surveillance #age

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.— from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124


Bhagat Singh


#bhagat-singh #freedom #india #singh #beauty

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.


Isaiah Berlin


#justice #death

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.


Lana Del Rey


#broken #dreams #elizabeth-woolridge-grant #freedom #life

He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That was easy. He was fighting against the view that people could be killed for their ideas, and against the ability of any religion to place a limiting point on thought. But he needed, now, to be clear of what he was fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of the imagination, freedom from fear, and the beautiful, ancient art of which he was privileged to be a practitioner. Also skepticism, irreverence, doubt, satire, comedy, and unholy glee. He would never again flinch from the defense of these things. p. 285


Salman Rushdie


#art

Das Geheimnis des Glücks ist die Freiheit. Das Geheimnis der Freiheit aber ist der Mut.


Pericles


#freedom #luck #courage

One small decision can change the world.


A.J. Deus


#change






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