August 2010
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“You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve...”
– Bob Dylan
June 2009
48 posts
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude,...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
“There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days...”
– Margaret Atwood
“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
– 1984
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...”
– Freya Madeline Stark
“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
– Marya Hornbacher
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say...”
– Voltaire
“In an age of self, and self-expression, this notion that our very selves can be...”
– Yves Simon
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That...”
– Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
– George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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“The democratic constituent bodies of our state will be denied the right to...”
– President Vaclav Klaus on the Lisbon Treaty
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WatchThe Century of the Self
Much Madness is divinest Sense—
To a discerning Eye—
Much Sense—the starkest Madness—
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail—
Assent—and you are sane—
Demur—you’re straightway dangerous—
And handled with a Chain—
Emily Dickinson
“What struck me, living and working in the United States, was that presidential...”
– John Pilger
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“Liberal democracy is moving towards a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an...”
– John Pilger
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“Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is...”
– Krishnamurti
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Revolutionary Road
April Wheeler: Don't you see? That's the whole idea! You'll be able to do what you should have been aloud to do seven years ago, you'll have the time. For the first time in your life, you'll have the time to find out what it is you actually want to do. And when you figure it out, you'll have the time and the freedom, to start doing.
Frank Wheeler: This doesn't seem very realistic.
April Wheeler: No, Frank. This is what's unrealistic. It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand. Coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. And you know what the worst part of it is? Our whole existence here is based on this great premise that we're special. They we're superior to the whole thing. But we're not. We're just like everyone else! We bought into the same, ridiculous delusion. That we have to resign from life and settle down the moment we have children. And we've been punishing each other for it
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“It’s been two decades since that lone protester defied a column of tanks...”
– The flame burns on
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“Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else...”
– George Orwell
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WatchFreedom Next Time
Freedom is nothing more than a chance to be...
(via simplybasic)
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To question your own thoughts is a interesting...
(via bennybing)
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to...”
– Frank Zappa
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“Throw a frog into boiling water and it will immediately jump free; but content a...”
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“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of...”
– Thomas Carlyle
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“Here, then, is the summation of the matter. We had thought, the decent people in...”
– Stephen Leacock
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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the...”
– James Madison
“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in...”
– John Stuart Mill
“By liberty then we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to...”
– David Hume
“The root of all well-ordered social action is a sentiment of justice, which at...”
– Herbert Spencer
“By liberty I mean assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he...”
– Lord Acton
“Economic policy in many western countries is effectively determined by a process...”
“Recent decades have seen an increase in the size and power of government. This...”
“The movement to democracy must be slow and gradual. Democracy involves far more...”
“The subjection of men to government will always continue as long as patriotism...”
– Leo Tolstoy
“We live today in democracies that are increasingly hostile to long-term and...”
“a common fallacy regarding freedom is to automatically assume that it is a...”
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