Quotes of: Freedoms Keyword

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of s...

America And The Young Intellectual

When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the Movement. One time, Faith & I ended up at home w all the babies from 2 households, because the mamas & the other older sisters were...

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

Arminius, appealing to Lactantius, held that: 'To recommend faith to others, we must make it the subject of persuasion, and not of compulsion'. He insisted that the true religion from Christ does not deteriorate into dissention. In the exercise of Ch...

Man's Faith and Freedom: The Theological Influence of Jacobus Arminius

If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable m...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need ...

Oliver Sacks

As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should ...

Roman Payne

As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should ...

Roman Payne

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.

Caged in Darkness

Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl: On Her Journey From Neediness to Freedom

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

Cinnamon Rain

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

Caged in Spirit

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

Dreamsongs Volume I

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Essays and Aphorisms

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

Emphyrio

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Enchantment

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

The First Circle

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Freedom Evolves

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Freedom from Fear