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A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.
— Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto
I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip through my fingers like sand and when it's gone for good, I'll be none the wiser.
— Kayla Krantz, When Night Falls: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Whoever desires to be free, shall search for the Truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody else’s or something else’s fault. If it is I am less than human. Like everybody else, I tend to rationalize and alibi, before I let myself admit, “Yes, I did this. I am sorry. I will do what I can to make reparation.” Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and become healed and whole and holy—not qualified, mind you; just holy.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth.
— Nikki Rowe
73. ...There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer’s orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else’s employee.
— Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto
Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.
— Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain
The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government. Most of the Indian nations of New England were monarchies, and many of the cities of the Italian Renaissance were controlled by dictators. But in reading about these societies one gets the impression that they allowed far more personal freedom than our society does.In part this was because they lacked efficient mechanisms for enforcing the ruler’s will: There were no modern, well-organised police forces, no rapid long-distance communications, no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens. Hence it was relatively easy to evade control.
— Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto
Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.
— Steven L. Peck, Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats
If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.
— Ronald Reagan
The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
When your freedom depends on the death of an innocent, it haunts you forever,' Red thought empathetically. 'Even if you couldn’t save them anyway.
— Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest
I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
In peace we play and freedom ring, Now let us enjoy a mantra to sing, Down here we know that today Elated it's a really sunny day,Play: It's Independence Day!Ensure you celebrate with joyful thought Never forget that for freedom we fought Dance and sing we never forgot Erase all doubts of what we got.Now it's time to celebrate, Chant hymns and vibrate! Expectations must be met. Don't give up and don't forget.As sometimes it's the only wayYield for freedom, learn to play.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
For a long time imagination was all i had. I allowed it to take me to all the places i yearned to be, all the sights i longed to see, make beauty out of all thats been and create art from this suffering.
— Nikki Rowe
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.
— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.
— Bert McCoy
Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.
— Criss Jami
When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Along my journey I have seen the horrors that humans can inflict on one another, but I've also witnessed acts of tenderness and kindness and sacrifice in the worst imaginable circumstances. I know that it is possible to lose part of your humanity in order to survive. But I also know that the spark of human dignity is never completely extinguished, and that given the oxygen of freedom and the power of love, it can grow again.
— Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.
— Marty Rubin
Curtains are our prisoners
—  they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!
Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother," Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?
— Karen Essex, Pharaoh
The sieges of Gvozdansko (1578) and Alamo (1836) tell the true stories of the small bands of the heroes who stood against the massive armies to defend their homelands. They echo innate human devotion to the idea of fighting for freedom.
— Vinko Vrbanic
Freedom is your soul in the emptiness of night. Freedom is this dark that is as great as what it holds the stars and everything beneath it and yet how it seems to be nothing, has no beginning, no end, and no center.
— Paul Lynch, Grace
I had no goals, no ambitions. That left me free to wander and amuse myself.
— Marty Rubin
How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?
— Jeffrey G. Duarte
If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.
— Mishi McCoy, The Lovely Knowing
Why?Because I am a sovereign being and I do what I desire to do as I feel led.That is all.
— Mishi McCoy
Freedom is the most precious property
—  I resisted the misery to keep my freedom.
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
— James Clavell, Tai-Pan
Blue for everyone but it was not for freedom.Just like you, like me
— Baali
Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What they display, these students who don't arrive in the reading room until nine, or even later, is a kind of daring. They play with life, with possibilities. For me my studies are like a tightrope I'm balancing on, life will begin only when I've reached the other side. Only when I'm standing there triumphantly, with a glowing testimonial and glittering results, only then, I think to myself, will I be free.
— Hanne Ørstavik, Like sant som jeg er virkelig
on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.
— Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts​ from the GNP...Work no longer means the creation of a value perceived by the worker but mainly a job, which is a social relationship. Unemployment means sad idleness, rather than the freedom to do things that are useful for oneself or for one's neighbour. An active woman who runs a house and brings up children and takes in those of others is distinguished from a woman who 'works,' no matter how useless or damaging the product of this work might be.
— Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate what’s imposed on youwhen the state isn’t looking.
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
She had a flicker of memory from a time when, just for a moment, she'd been free; when the world had been wide open and she'd been about to enter it with Sam at her side. It was a freedom that she was still working for, because even though she'd tasted it only for a heartbeat, it had been the most exquisite heartbeat she'd ever experienced.
— Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there’s even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
They said, we are going to respect human's freedoms. but it is not true. don't you see that? they are just respecting freedom of those who they fight for their freedom and fight to get what they want and respect freedom of those who these people fear of them. but what about me? what about my freedom? Am i not human? And Am i not deserve to be respected and to have my freedom? I am not rushing, not hating, not hurting, neither killing nor destroying any places. i just try to do my best to respect the government rules. but did you see or know what i get in return? nothing, i get nothing. since years ago they are just hurting me and do not care at all about me and they let me to die. it looks they forgot what they said about human's freedom or they don't see me as human. but that is fine. i will be gone one day if you respect me or not, if you care for me or not, if you love me and help or not but do you think what you do is right? be honest with yourself at least for once.
— Arash Tabish
They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.
— Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
You are born to be wild but end up being named, tamed and chained.
— Haresh Sippy
Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.
— Ahmed Mostafa
The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment, before the facts of her latest cell reasserted themselves. Scrabbling in the walls like a rat. Whether in the fields or underground or in an attic room America remained her warden.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
You are free to create your own way of being. There are no rules.
— Marty Rubin
The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own
—  find the courage and forge your own path
Man is everywhere in chains, and his chains will not be broken till he feels that it is degrading to be a bondsman, whether to an individual or to a State. The disease of civilization is not so much the material poverty of the many as the decay of the spirit of freedom and self-confidence. The revolt that will change the world will spring, not from the benevolence that breeds "reform", but from the will to be free. Men will act together in the full consciousness of their mutual dependence; but they will act for themselves. Their liberty will not be given them from above; they will take it on their own behalf.
— G. D. H. Cole
A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive liberties cannot come into existence unless the commodities and resources on which the exercise of those liberties is based are equally distributed to all.
— Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.
— Gustave Courbet
People on foot, on bikes, in cars, on planes-all chasing freedom.
— Marty Rubin
Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.
— Anthony T. Hincks
We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We don't recognize this lazy nobility we now have, we reject our present class hierarchy. We want all men to be free and equal, for no one to be someone else's subject, but for all to be subject to the law. There should be an end of privileges and arbitrary power. Everyone should be treated equally as a child of the state, and just as there are no longer any middlemen between the layman and his God, so each citizen should stand in direct relation to the state. We want freedom of the press, of employment, of commerce. We want all men to compete without any special privileges, and the only crown should be the crown of merit.
— Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom...
— Nourhan Mamdouh
One is not born free
—  one becomes free.
Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are. You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacity for joy.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth
Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don’t even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell we want to bein this world. Right now, if we choose to.And why wouldn’t we?
— Scott Stabile
What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?
— Marty Rubin
I am free.I am free.I am free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Freedom is a hard habit to break.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
— A.E. Samaan
Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus’ disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God” (Mark 10:27). Pursuing what we want is possible. It is easy. It is a pleasant kind of freedom. But the only freedom that lasts is pursuing what we want when we want what we ought. And it is devastating to discover we don’t, and we can’t.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Everything about sex and freedom interests me.
— Marty Rubin
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of justice, but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when ‘freedom’ becomes a special privilege.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Our children are interested in the BIG picture. That is where the deep natural learning seems to get done. It is totally opposite to everything I have ever learnt at school.
— Lehla Eldridge, Jump, Fall, Fly, From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling
Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.
— Rian Nejar
. . . buzzed up by the knowledge that none of my family knew where I was, who I was with nor when I'd be home again. I didn't even know exactly who I was with or when I'd be home again or where home really was anymore.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
— Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.
— Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.
— Beth  Cohen
The Waterbearer loves, loves, loves its freedom, but eventually, when freedom is the only goal, it can get a little limiting. That's when Aquarius realizes its freedom has become its prison.
— John Marchesella
As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she had known all the signs of men and read them well enough that she had been successfully robbed only three times and raped once; but none of those had burned from her the hunger for empty spaces, strange cities, new oceans.
— Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.
— A.E. Samaan
We someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest in the water, thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever more repressive.
— Ma Boyong, Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.
— Unknown
The world is a forgotten place.
— Nina Hrusa
...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
Freedom and security are not compatible. As one increases the other diminishes.
— Rodney L. Petersen, The Philosophy Of A Peasant
I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
Independence Day is a day of truth,It stands for us,Both me and you,It gives us hope,To fight on days,When there are others against us,What more can I say.It gives us glory,Our land to share,With each other,We shall not despair.The land of freedom,Our liberty tall,She shines her torch,For one and all.The fourth of July,Is our special day,It's when we came of age,That's all I'll say.God Bless!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.
— Anna Aquino
If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.
— A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than I had ever been.
— V.S. Naipaul
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.
— A.E. Samaan
Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
If this is freedom, do I want it?
— Kerry Drewery, Day 7
Being content to walk with God brings peace in the midst of uncertainty. It brings wisdom in the unknown. It brings contentment in any situation and grace in every circumstance. It brings mercy and forgiveness in sin and blessed assurance in condemnation. It brings freedom from captivity. Walking with God brings light and air into the pit, as God reaches down to rescue us when we fall.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
We have the freedom of choice, to choose what’s right.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Enjoy the contented silence.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.
— A.E. Samaan
The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.
— Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge against Nature
She wondered what it would be like to fly, to feel the air, cold and bracing on your face, to be able to spread wings whenever you felt cornered, to have the power to distance yourself at will, weightless, and safely out of reach.
— Effrosyni Moschoudi, The Flow (book 2)
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts."For the briefest sliver in time, the world shimmered and Sugar saw her life as an enviable jewel: a shining gem radiating energy and possibility that no one but she would ever possess, no matter what its deficiencies.
— Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees: A Novel of Honey, Love, and Manners
If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there’s plenty of freedom…
— Latika Teotia
I have no use for a theoretic freedom. Let me have something finite, definite — matter that can lend itself to my operation only insofar as it is commensurate with my possibilities. And such matter presents itself to me together with limitations. I must in turn impose mine upon it. So here we are, whether we like it or not, in the realm of necessity. And yet which of us has ever heard talk of art as other than a realm of freedom? This sort of heresy is uniformly widespread because it is imagined that art is outside the bounds of ordinary activity. Well, in art as in everything else, one can build only upon a resisting foundation: whatever constantly gives way to pressure, constantly renders movement impossible. My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint, diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
— Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.
— J.Adam Snyder
When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.
— Daniel Suarez, Change Agent
But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words.
— Clarice Lispector
The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
My chains are broken. I am free in Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.
— David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel
Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.
— Janelle Gray
Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God’s grace gives us that freedom.
— Ron Baratono
It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because it has a form - it has a limited reach. Whereas the thought called "freedom" is free as an act of thought. It's so free that even to its thinker it seems to have no author.
— Clarice Lispector
I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.
— Frank E. Peretti, Piercing the Darkness
Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thinking - he no longer needs to think and now finds himself close to the grandeur of the nothing. I could say of the "everything". But "everything" is a quanitity, and quantity has a limit in its very beginning. The true incommensurability is the nothing, which has no barriers adn where a person can scatter their thinking-feeling.
— Clarice Lispector
And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.
— Clarice Lispector
You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.
— Tsukumizu, Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
Without suffering, we never wishes to be free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy...
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
It's time for both of us to be free.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril.You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful.You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for freedom; they bark for joy in their cellar when your spirit aspires to break open all prisons.To me you are still a prisoner who imagines freedom: ah, such prisoners of the soul become clever, but also deceitful and base.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!
— Dada Bhagwan
What would you ask for if you were given the freedom to chose something of your own volition (marjiyaat)? There is nothing in [all] mandatory (tasks) in which one can remain still. One after another, the needs will continue. It is only in the state of own’s own Self [the Soul], that one can remain burden-free.
— Dada Bhagwan
The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie journey.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!
— Kamand Kojouri
Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.
— Mizuho Kusanagi
No situation can enslaved us, if we are free in our mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.
— Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Freedom is that you harness from being a slave to the one you love.
— Lukhman Pambra
We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.
— Winston S. Churchill
Only the Truth can set you free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom.
— DeBorrah K. Ogans, A HOUSE of PRAYER
Most women are one man away from welfare.
— Gloria Steinem
China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.
— Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same.
— Sergei Polunin
When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as if they're still oppressed.
— Gift Gugu Mona
(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
LET EACH ONE OF US GIVE OUR BEST TO GROW THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY.
— Seema Brain Openers
Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man’s nature.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
Man must be free or he will not survive.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline & Critical Writings
That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. You’re just alone with yourself. You look around and lose yourself in the mountains, rivers, forests or tundra, but you can see nothing except for the chaos in your own mind. It is fucking terrifying and peaceful at the same time.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.
— Roger Casement, The trial of Sir Roger Casement
Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules
—  you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.
On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The only true, unchallenged, and un-legalized free-will we have is internal.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to the continuance of a free government … whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
— General Robert E. Lee
When the whole world is silent,Even one voice becomes powerful.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But in actuality, the assumption that there is no freedom leads to the exact opposite of order in human behavior. If we all really felt we were not free to make our own choices of how to face and deal with the conditions set for us by heredity and environment, we would also feel no responsibility for our behavior. And we would be right. We couldn’t be blamed for action over which we had no control, so we would make no real effort to act responsibly. We would give free rein to our passions on the grounds that whatever we did was part of the cause-and-effect sequence of events preordained by the conditions. Instead of orderly human conduct, there would be chaos. In fact, much of the irresponsible antisocial behavior that characterizes our modern society stems from the fact that many people have studied or otherwise absorbed this scientific doctrine of determinism. As a result, they have unconsciously excused their own behavior as well as that of others on the grounds that it is determined by factors beyond control.
— James C. Crumbaugh, Logotherapy: New Help for Problem Drinkers
I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes.
— Robert  Black
We must learn to think again. America floats on a sea of misguided philosophies, all competing for equality while the values that provide true freedom are hidden in a dishonored generation. Returning to biblical principles will shore up our foundation and increase our freedom and health as a nation.
— Karla Perry, Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.
— Claire North, The End of the Day
​Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
A life of open skies and roads, of wandering where the wind takes you, answering to no one and nothing? A life of freedom…” She shook her head. “What more could I ask than to live a life unchecked by cages?
— Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.
— Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune
​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold.
— Zeena Schreck
The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
— Hannah Arendt
She was surprised to discover that Paola was thirty-four. 'What have you been doing all this time?' she wanted to ask, but instead she said, 'What brought you to England?''There was a man,' Paola said. 'When the man left, I decided to stay.''An Italian man?'Barely perceptibly, Paola nodded.'He had a job here. He is an -' She paused. '- aeronautical engineer. After a year he had to go home.'Solly was seething with questions. It was strange: in Paola's presence she felt herself to be a failure, yet a part of her believed that a woman of thirty-four with no husband or children was the greatest failure of all. It was a kind of unstoppable need for resolution that grew from her like ivy over the prospect of freedom and tried to strangle it. She couldn't bear the idea of loose threads, of open spaces, of stories without ends. Did Paola not want to get married? Did she not want children, and a house of her own? She sat there in her white sweater, delicately eating. Solly, a sack stuffed with children, a woman who had spent and spent her life until there was none left, sat opposite her, impatient for more.
— Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park
No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
— Bella James, The Girl Who Cried Wolf
You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.
— Melanie Dickerson, A Viscount's Proposal
The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals. He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a value for her too in his attention, though its consequence is her captivity. But her nature drives her to seek the wild, and one day she escapes the farmyard and finds her way back into the forest; but instead of feeling liberated she is terrified, for having lived in the farmyard most of her life she has forgotten how to be free.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today’s rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle." (Life Hacks, p.50
— Jon Morrison, Life Hacks: Nine Ideas That Will Change How You Do Everything
Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.
— Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love. The final act of love is releasing them from your leash of grief so they can be free in the heaven on the other side of the Bridge. Until you resolve your grief, you bind them to you in the land between Heaven and Earth while they wait, suspended between the worlds, for you to heal. When you are free of your grief, they are free of your grief.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master
Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.
— Moonshine Noire
This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.
— Moonshine Noire
She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
— Madeleine L'Engle, And Both Were Young
We are much more than pretty... we are wonderfully made. We are much more than likable... we are deeply loved. We are much more than ok... we are the daughters of the King.
— Holley Gerth, You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be
...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
— Romain Gary, White Dog
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.
— Kabelo Mabona
Man does not live by bread alone.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
But still he remembered wondering, at the age of ten, is it better to be safe or to be free?
— Lisa Berne, The Laird Takes a Bride
What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
— Philip Pullman, The Broken Bridge
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied
— Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Because God is trustworthy, you need not let worry steal your joy for one more day. With God as your leader, even when confusion is at its peak, there can always be a certainty in your uncertainty. To be certain of God’s character and His goodness to us means that we can look uncertainty in the eye and even flourish in it. Worry can be transformed into excited anticipation of what is to come." (Life Hacks, p.35)
— Jon Morrison, Life Hacks: Nine Ideas That Will Change How You Do Everything
It sounds honourable to talk like you have your entire life mapped out with each day planned. There’s no problem with making plans and having goals; however, as followers of Jesus we have to keep in mind that God is free to change the course or destination as he so chooses. That’s why we are followers of Jesus, not followers of our own plans." (Life Hacks, p.32)
— Jon Morrison
I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!
— Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.
— Samuel R. Young Jr.
It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.
— Mae Chevrette
We can't control what others thinkWe might as well go ahead and live
— Sanhita Baruah
In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
-For me, a democracy is when the population proposes laws, for example, a petition, which are adopted or vetoed by the population by referendum. Or it's not a democracy, nor even a parody. Europe's true vocation is to make democracy impossible and install a government of experts. -Europe bothers you?-I'm against it for the reasons I cited. Democracy is the future. Europe is a regression. Elected representatives means no more democracy. -We're pretty free in France.-You think?-I dunno.-I want there to be an insurrection. -In what?-Insurrection. Brussels is a good place for a civil war. Michel Houllebecq, "The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq" (2014)
— Michel Houllebecq
...A widow has freedoms a wife does not. But when I look at you, I do not see obstacles for my career, I see-" My face burned even more. "I see wings. A way to fly higher and further than I can on my own.
— Marie Brennan, In the Labyrinth of Drakes
I was able to take that first step to freedom.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
— Victor Pinchuk
Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.
— John C. Keats, Of Time and an Island
The God of this world has chosen to provide light to all mankind through His Son, who was crucified and died so that we could be cleansed and made free
— Todd Coburn, Reflection of the Son
They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.
— Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog