Freedom

She supposed it felt like freedom, if freedom was a fall into the unknown.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

To be free, get an education. To be happy, spread compassion.

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free——The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

Some people would rather be right than free.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

I mumble my vows, Shad mutters his, and I wonder what would happen if I lunged for the door like a wild animal seeking its freedom. I could probably outrun his one-legged friend, but Shad has something of the greyhound about him.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights...It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

The only way we can eliminate despots in this world, is not to be peaceful about it, for that has been the case for many people that has caused the upheaval of such tyranny, nor we should turn the other way, but we must take appropriate actions to eliminate the thriving forces of such darkness in our world.