Quotes About Freedom

Moral war für ihn weder Botmäßigkeit, noch Gedankenweisheit, sondern das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

Isn't it greatly in my favor that I don't belong here but in jail?

The freedom we must defend is freedom for the practice of these virtues. It is freedom for excellence, the freedom that enables us to master ourselves. It is a freedom that, far from being negated by rigorous standards of scholarship, demands them. It is not the freedom of "if it feels good, do it"; it is, rather, the freedom of self-transcendence, the freedom from slavery to self.

Authoritarians are content to forbid people from speaking truths; totalitarians feel they must take the further step of compelling people to speak falsehoods.

We can anticipate Mises's ultimate conclusion: There is no viable third system. People must choose between capitalism and socialism.

You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.

I had found the truth, I had dug the truth up out of the ash pile, the garbage heap, the kitchen midden, the bone yard, and had sent that little piece of truth to Adam Stanton. I couldn't cut the truth to match his ideas. Well, he'd have to make his ideas match the truth. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. The truth shall make you free.

the endless easy joy that came with pissing into the morning sun.

A small nation's fight for freedom from tyranny and a deadly foe Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire

According to the article, Douglass responds, "No, no, … I am Marshal Douglass in Washington; here let me be Fred Douglass again."41 Was Douglass in some odd way asking to be a slave again or to be treated as a kind of boy, as some of his critics at the time suggested?

Walt Whitman: "Hold me up, I want to shit.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Where's the room for free will in this mechanical universe of yours, Charles?" "There isn't any. That's why I say the universe stinks." "We have no freedom at all?" "The freedom to wriggle a little on the hook.

When you enslave a black man, you enslave yourself as well, for now you are bound to him as surely as he is bound to you, and your character is shaped by his bondage as surely as his own is. Make the black man servile, and in the same process you make yourself tyrannical. Make the black man quiver in fear before you, and you make yourself a monster of terror.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

There is an old cliché that goes: "Job is an acronym for 'Just Over Broke.

Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That is why it is called 'maximum security.

He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.

I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid.

The corporate myth is over. If you've spent years climbing the corporate ladder, have you ever stopped to notice the view? What view, you ask? The rear end of the person in front of you. That's what you get to look forward to. If that's the way you want to view the rest of your life, then this book probably isn't for you. But if you are sick and tired of looking at someone else's behind, then read on.