What’s the point of doing what you’re told if you have no choice in the matter?

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

Don’t go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to...

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

You Say To People ‘Throw Off Your Chains’ And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

To say that God elects to fashion rational creatures in his image, and so grants them the freedom to bind themselves and the greater physical order to another master – to say that he who...

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.

Not everybody is an artist, but some people are when they have the freedom to do whatever they want.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom

And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response.Bakst said sharply, “You have talked of freedom. You...

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country...

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

{Colonel Carr’s testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and gentlest and most considerate and loving man I ever knew. His was a nature...

There is no security without freedom.

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only...

Right isn’t always legal.

Americans are artisans in freedom.

What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make...

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic ‘rights,’ [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance–rights and duties, freedom and order–the social fabric...

You’ll never fly, if you’re too scared of the height,You’ll never live if you’re just too scared to die,Everybody wants heaven, I knowBut darling freedom ain’t free, it’s a long roadYou’ll never find your place...

Awesome is a substance I sell in times of peace. And despair. It’s slippery and smells like freedom, so do not attempt to apply it anally. That advice is mostly directed at politicians.

There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his mind could it be freed.

Freedom isn’t free. But there are some really great coupons if you know where to look. Buy one liberty, get the next one half off.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

Nobody’s truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn’t by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word “free” to a note so high...

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a...

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don’t understand this at all. It’s like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is...

said Simms. ”It’s a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It’s so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There’s less time to talk. With only two...

In einem maßlosen Staat […] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper...

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material production. Just...

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.

Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself. He does not squander his best energies. He accepts no substitute for his...

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

Morality is the clipping of a bird’s wings.

Det var det der holdt mig vågen om natten,” sagde Walter. “Den her opsplitning af landet. For det er det samme problem overalt. Det er ligesådan med internettet eller kabel-tv – der er aldrig noget...

The challenge for people today–and it is not and easy one–is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use...

When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.

A hymn for freedom; without border barriers and barbed wire fences. A hymn for freedom; without astute words.A hymn for freedom;without wars of every man against every man. A hymn to freedom; at any time...

Almighty Freedom! give my venturous songThe force, the charm that to thy voice belong;Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way,To nerve my country with the patriot lay,To teach all men where all...

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.