Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.
C.M. StunichTags: life liberty free-will freedom free enjoy-life bad-boys kidnap motorcycle-man bikers enjoy-freedom
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world -- not even in infinite space. I was free -- free to think, to express my thoughts -- free to live to my own ideal -- free to live for myself and those I loved -- free to use all my faculties, all my senses -- free to spread imagination's wings -- free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope -- free to judge and determine for myself -- free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past -- free from popes and priests -- free from all the "called" and "set apart" -- free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies -- free from the fear of eternal pain -- free from the winged monsters of the night -- free from devils, ghosts and gods. For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thought -- no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings -- no chains for my limbs -- no lashes for my back -- no fires for my flesh -- no master's frown or threat – no following another's steps -- no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds.
And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain -- for the freedom of labor and thought -- to those who fell on the fierce fields of war, to those who died in dungeons bound with chains -- to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs -- to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn -- to those by fire consumed -- to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.
Tags: truth honesty happiness liberty compassion freedom joy understanding
God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.
Israelmore AyivorTags: success liberty love devil persistence evil god mind endurance sin salvation jesus storm satan liberation perseverance save food-for-thought jesus-christ redemption condemnation christ feel win reverend pastor garden-of-eden storms condemn endure bishop persist low-self-esteem persevere redeem self-condemnation israelmore-ayivor unworthiness arcbishop low-self-image self-unworthiness
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.
Israelmore AyivorTags: fear success liberty purpose freedom self-esteem destiny food-for-thought potential speak worthy incompetency pursue against low-self-esteem self-condemnation incompetent israelmore-ayivor confirm competent unworthiness low-self-image believe-in-your-self comdemnation inabilities incapabilities lack-of-self-trust
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond TutuTags: liberty freedom justice rights
Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.
J.S.B. MorseTags: politics liberty freedom capitalism government entitlement socialism libertarian libertarianism
When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.
J.S.B. MorseTags: liberty power freedom democracy government slavery libertarian libertarianism
When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.
Israelmore AyivorTags: fear liberty man god church bible salvation jesus commandments food-for-thought jesus-christ christ close pastor prophesy saviour intimate don-t-be-afraid intimidate israelmore-ayivor the-word-of-god never-fear never-be-afraid be-saved congregation enclose enclosed fear-not god-speaks intimidated love-christ
Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: liberty decision sacrifice
Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different which they have never seen, and they attribute to men a natural inclination to slavery, on account of the patience with which the slaves within their notice carry the yoke; not reflecting that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue, the value of which is not known but by those who possess them, though the relish for them is lost with the things themselves. I know the charms of your country, said Brasidas to a satrap who was comparing the life of the Spartans with that of the Persepolites; but you can not know the pleasures of mine.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: liberty natural persia slavery dialogue comparison persian spartan sparta satrap
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