Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
Author
"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
Anonymous
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
Unknown
"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
Maya Angelou
"America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice."
George Saunders
"Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate."
Osho
"It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them."
Unknown
"There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom."
Jessica Sorensen
Inspiration
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Author
Inspiration
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
Bill Moyers
Inspiration
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
Author
"I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good."
Nick Clegg
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."
Anonymous
"Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... Because in striving for your goal there are many things you do not see, which are directly in front of your eyes."
Unknown
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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