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If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.Collection: Freedom
`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.Collection: Freedom
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.Collection: Freedom
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.Collection: Freedom
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.Collection: Freedom
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.Collection: Freedom
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.Collection: Freedom
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.Collection: Freedom
There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.Collection: Freedom
The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.Collection: Freedom
The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.Collection: Freedom
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.Collection: Freedom
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.Collection: Freedom
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?Collection: Freedom
Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!Collection: Freedom
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.Collection: Freedom
...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is knowing who you really are.Collection: Freedom
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.Collection: Freedom
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."Collection: Freedom
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.Collection: Freedom
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?Collection: Freedom
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.Collection: Freedom
If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?Collection: Freedom
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.Collection: Freedom
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.Collection: Freedom
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.Collection: Freedom
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.Collection: Freedom
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.Collection: Freedom
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.Collection: Freedom
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.Collection: Freedom
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.Collection: Freedom
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.Collection: Freedom
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.Collection: Freedom
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.Collection: Freedom
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.Collection: Freedom
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.Collection: Freedom
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.Collection: Freedom
Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.Collection: Freedom
To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.Collection: Freedom
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.Collection: Freedom
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.Collection: Freedom
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.Collection: Freedom
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.Collection: Freedom
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.Collection: Freedom
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.Collection: Freedom
You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.Collection: Freedom