Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.
Osho
"When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms."
Alexander Gordon Smith
"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
"I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized."
Arlen Specter
Inspiration
To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.
Osamu Dazai
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."
Anonymous
Inspiration
For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'.
Dario Argento
Inspiration
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.
Paul Robeson
"We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system."
Charles Kennedy
"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."
Anonymous
Inspiration
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
"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."
Mary Wollstonecraft
Inspiration
It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.
Author
Inspiration
Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.
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