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“Science and art leave societies in which they are not respected Avicenna”
― Avicenna, Avicenna About Love

“Philosophers of freedom were mainly, and understandably, concerned with how humans would escape the injustice, oppression, inequality, or even uniformity foisted on them by other humans or human-made systems. Geological time and the chronology of human histories remained unrelated. This distance between the two calendars, as we have seen, is what climate scientists now claim has collapsed. The period I have mentioned, from 1750 to now, is also the time when human beings switched from wood and other renewable fuels to large-scale use of fossil fuel—first coal and then oil and gas. The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“How do you set a Phoenix free? You find its light. You open its ribcage. You let it sing and watch it rise. @reenadossauthor”
― Reena Doss

“To be truly free, you have to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“America’s animal association is the eagle, which is supposed to represent FREEDOM. But it turns out that America is 100% fake and the exact opposite of FREE, so perhaps we’d have been better off making our symbol the duck.”
― Jarod Kintz, Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“Ducks can both swim and fly. So, if you wanted to catch them, would you need a fishing license or a pilot's license? That's the thing I think of when I see an American flag, and I marvel over living in The Land of The FREE, where you can't even catch fish without permission.”
― Jarod Kintz, Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepersâ€�
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!”
― Frank Herbert

“I’ve long had reservations about the emancipatory rhetoric of past eras, especially the kind that treats liberation as a one-time event or event horizon. Nostalgia for prior notions of liberation—many of which depend heavily upon mythologies of revelation, violent upheaval, revolutionary machismo, and teleological progress—often strikes me as not useful or worse in the face of certain present challenges, such as global warming.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constricted, and in need of being awakened and freed (hence, an aesthetics of shock), whereas the twenty-first-century model presumes the audience to be damaged, in need of healing, aid, and protection (hence, an aesthetics of care).”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“Unrein the mind.”
― Steven Magee

“She was a saltwater, sunsets, and road trips kinda girl.”
― Nithushe

“The day you’ll start craving for a savior to deliver you is the day you’ll welcome any tyrant into your soul. Freedom is the game of the unsaved and the unsavable.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“To protect patrilineal descent, men have for centuries tried to control women's sexuality. Although man needs woman, he tries to keep her power under control, legislating against women's free use of her sex in case she compromises the fragile but tenacious social structure of our patriarchal society.”
― Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

“Yesterday's assault on the Capitol was an attack on multiracial American democracy, a fragile experiment younger than most US senators.

(1/7/2021)”
― Adam Serwer

“History is not a science, nor is it an art, though the historian must, as a writer, be an artist too, he should write well, lucidly and eloquently, and is not harmed by a lively imagination. What is history? A truthful account of what happened in the past. As this necessarily involves evaluation, the historian is also a moralist. The term 'liberal,' mocked by some, must be retained. Historians are fallible beings who must make up their own minds, constantly aware of the particularised demands of truth. What is seen as odd must be allowed to retain its oddity, upon which later a clearer light may or may not shine. There are many dangers. History must be saved from dictators, from authoritarian politics, from psychology, from anthropology, from science, above all from the pseudo-philosophy of historicism. The study of history is menaced by fragmentation, a distribution of historical thinking among other disciplines, as we see happening in the case of philosophy. Such fragmentation opens a space for false prophets, old and new. Not only the shades of Hegel and Marx and Heidegger, but also those, you know whom I mean, who would degrade history into what they call 'fabulation.' Of course it is a truism, of which much has been made, that we cannot see the past. But we can work hard and faithfully to portray it, to understand and explain it. We need this if we are to possess wisdom and freedom. What brings down dictators, what has liberated Eastern Europe? Most of all a passionate hunger for truth, for the truth about their past, and for the justice which truth begets.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Freedom of speech to say publicly whatever one wants; freedom of assembly to gather where and around whatever issues one wants; freedom of movement to travel wherever one wants, etc. If society succeeds in convincing us that we want only what it wants in all these cases, are we then truly more free than an individual who refuses to comply with social mores [...]”
― Albert Szymanski, Human Rights in the Soviet Union: Including Comparisons with the U.S.A.

“With the grit of the dust on her tongue and the wind sweeping against her face, joy welled up within her. For a few moments she could forget about the confusion and frustration that had fenced her in over recent weeks. For today, she was riding free.”
― Jody Hedlund, To Tame a Cowboy

“We cannot allow police officers to be judge, jury, and executioner in the street. That is not how this works. That is not the social contract that we all agreed to.

(On The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, 2020)”
― Kimberly Jones

“Il mondo nuovo è un unico campo di concentramento che si crede un paradiso, non essendoci nulla da contrapporgli.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Prismen: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

“I suppose I should feel guilty about you, Esca. For me, there has been the Eagle; but what had you to win in all this?'
Esca smiled at him, a slow, grave smile. There was a jagged tear in his forehead where a furze-root had caught him, Marcus noticed, but under it his eyes looked very quiet. 'I have been once again a free man among free men. I have shared the hunting with my brother, and it has been a good hunting.'
Marcus smiled back. 'It has been a good hunting,' he agreed.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

“Ppl seem to operate under the false assumption that the majority of Americans are on the side of equality & progress at any given time in history when it's most often the opposite that's true. That's why the true story of democracy & rights in the USA is one of prolonged struggle

(11/11/2020 on Twitter)”
― Bree Newsome Bass

“All the success of the world lies in the freedom of your soul and peace of your spirit.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Multiracial whiteness reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political color and not simply a racial identity â€� a discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others.

(1/15/2021 in Washington Post)”
― Cristina Beltrán

“...the Negro has continued to instruct us as to his capacities. Though the insurrections that so long plagued the Mississippi valley have been reduced to small, scattered outbreaks, the tenacity with which colored men maintained them in the face of overwhelming odds must give us pause if we continue to see those colored men only as the docile servants they appeared to be in days past.
We have tacitly recognized this change, in that many blacks who escaped from bondage during the upheavals of the Second American Revolution remain at liberty, not least, perhaps, be cause, once having tasted freedom, they can no longer safely be returned to servitude. Further, during the war several states relaxed restrictions on what the Negro might be taught, the better to benefit from his intelligent exertions. Once having taught him, one may no longer demand that he subsequently forget.
Yet if the Negro may learn, if he will take up arms in his own defense, if in our hour of peril we contemplated his taking up arms in our defense, where is the justice in leaving him in chains? To do so but exacerbates the risk of servile rebellion and gives our enemies a dagger pointed straight at our hearts. I submit to you, my friends, that emancipation, however distasteful it may appear, exists de facto in large stretches of our territory; gradually acknowledging it de jure will allow us to control its impact upon our nation and will shield us against the excesses we all fear.”
― Harry Turtledove, The Guns of the South

“I am going to be careful not to make too much sense”
― James Elkins, Pictures and Tears

“In the Declaration of Independence, freedom comes right after equality. For Reagan and the narrative of Free America, it meant freedom from government and bureaucrats. It meant the freedom to run a business without regulation, to pay workers whatever wage the market would bear, to break a union, to pass all your wealth on to your children, to buy out an ailing company with debt and strip it for assets, to own seven houses—or to go homeless. But a freedom that gets rid of all obstructions is impoverished, and it degrades people.

Real freedom is closer to the opposite of breaking loose. It means growing up, and acquiring the ability to participate fully in political and economic life. The obstructions that block this ability are the ones that need to be removed. Some are external: institutions and social conditions. Others are embedded in your character and get in the way of governing yourself, thinking for yourself, and even knowing what is true. These obstructions crush the individuality that freedom lovers cherish, making them conformist, submissive, a group of people all shouting the same thing—easy marks for a demagogue.”
― George Packer

“The stories of unicorns are buried under myth, legend and magic but did you know that they cannot survive in a place where Love, Truth and Freedom refuse to exist?”
― Reena Doss

“A voice silenced is a voice amplified; the dead scream louder than the living.”
― R. N. Prasher