What is an unconditional state?

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

Nothing can shark the wheels or crush the spirit of a determined people, said Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

Write like no one is reading.

Hang on. It gets easier, and then it gets okay, and then it feels like freedom.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities.

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death.

Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason – refuted, or...

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

Don’t be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.

A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and...

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Are you living in the moment?

I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have...

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain...

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Are you seeking to be offended?

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?

Dare to live by letting go.

The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you...

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Independence” made us weakAnd slaughtered usIn the name of kindnessThis is democracy by the whipAnd the fear of chainsWith a whirlwind at its core

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.

It’s more important to be free than to be happy.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden’s proposal of marriage:)”[W]hile we perceive … the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify...

…though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an...

You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You’re the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn’t mean you’ve...

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for...

Give as you wish to live, it all come’s back to you. And that’s without exception …

Self-condemnation means speaking against one’s own success. If can’t stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the...

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves

Nice” women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities...

Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it’s a risk.