Adrienne Rich Quotes, Freedom Quotes, War Quotes

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

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