If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
Stichwörter: liberty compassion rich wealth freedom society duty poor assistance development-aid moral-obligation social-security third-world
The free man never thinks of escape.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: freedom
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelStichwörter: individuality empowerment freedom courage judgment thought self-determination independence speaking-out dignity
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen FryStichwörter: truth freedom language tolerance
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Stephen KingStichwörter: friendship friends freedom birds letting-go
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
Patricia BriggsStichwörter: freedom
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: freedom
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
Janet FitchStichwörter: dance freedom ocean color turquoise
Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.
Oswald MosleyStichwörter: freedom foreign-policy imperialism communism india communist nonfreedom
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
Alan W. WattsStichwörter: laughter freedom religion faith spirituality mysticism eqaility
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