Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | What Are You Doing? |
2014 | The Ideal Man |
2013 | Daring Ripples |
2012 | Evermore |
2011 | Unpredictable Opportunity |
2010 | Giants Fall In Game 2 (1 to 6) – Leave PA With 1-1 Split !! |
Posts Tagged ‘On Freedom’
What #AmnestyDon Is Really Afraid Of
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged #AmnestyDon, Donald "The Chicken-Hawk" Trump, Eleanor Roosevelt, On Freedom, On Responsibility, Politics, Quotes on October 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
With No Allowance For Chance?
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Jean-Paul Sartre, My Journal, On Fate, On Free Will, On Freedom, On Responsibility, Philosophy, Quotes on August 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. | |
— Jean-Paul Sartre | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Details |
2014 | Here’s One… |
2013 | Non-Fungible Commodities |
2012 | Hope And Tears |
2011 | Just Long Enough |
Meaningful Thoughts | |
Sums
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Andre Malraux, My Journal, On Culture, On Freedom, Quotes on July 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved. | |
— Andre Malraux | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | I Hope Not |
2014 | Study The Means Of Expressing Yourself |
2013 | That Stubborn Thing |
2012 | Like Mike |
2011 | Flawless Or Candid |
2010 | Browning… |
The Responsibility Of Freedom
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, My Journal, On Freedom, On Responsibility, Philosophy, Quotes on July 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Freedom |
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Freedom is | |
the very law of life, | |
life itself | |
is rooted in freedom | |
We are not | |
machines. | |
We are not | |
pre-programmed. | |
We are utter freedoms. | |
Now it is up to us, | |
what to make of it. | |
You have to take | |
your life into | |
your own hands, | |
and you | |
are responsible for it. | |
No fate is responsible. | |
You have to | |
create yourself | |
by your own effort. | |
The total responsibility | |
is yours. | |
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh | |
[Yes, I know this is a quote from a discredited “cult” religious figure / leader. But, that does not make the words themselves less interesting. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Face It |
Birdfight | |
2014 | Honoring Firefighters |
2013 | And Never Will |
2012 | The Human Adventure Continues |
2011 | Almost Never |
Dealing With It
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, On Freedom, On Rebellion, Philosophy, Quotes on June 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. | |
― Albert Camus | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Too Many Choices! |
2014 | Vini, Vidi, Vici |
2013 | Heroes |
Education, n. | |
2012 | Who I Want To Be |
2011 | Mythic Forgetfulness |
Or Blog (And Bound)
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Frederick Douglas, On Freedom, On Reading, Quotes on May 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. | |
– Frederick Douglas | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Welcome The Virtuous |
2014 | Closing The Gap? |
2013 | On Parenting |
2012 | What Knowledge Is |
2011 | The Indefinite Accumulation Of Property |
No Less
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bill of Rights, Earl Warren, On Freedom, Politics, Quotes, U.S. Supreme Court on October 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free. | |
— Earl Warren | |
Former Chief Justice | |
United States Supreme Court | |
[Note the use of the word “principals” instead of “principles”. This indicates superior position rather than “simply” equally important opinions and conditions. To quote Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Life Advice (50) |
Orange October (IV) – Giants Win Game 1 Of NLCS! | |
2013 | Running To |
2012 | Suddenly |
2011 | Liberal Washington |
2010 | Giants Advance To NLCS!! |
Truism
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Earl Warren, On Freedom, On Rights, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on September 11, 2015| 2 Comments »
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt’s Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes. | |
— Earl Warren | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Thank You |
2013 | Really |
2012 | Ordinary Five Minutes Longer |
2011 | The Wealth Of Sons (And Daughters) |
Great Expectations
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged On Civilization, On Freedom, On Ignorance, President Thomas Jefferson, Quotes on July 19, 2015| 5 Comments »
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. | |
― Thomas Jefferson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Pass The Soul |
2013 | Zapping Music And Art |
2012 | Not Quite Fantastic |
That Kid Is Back | |
2011 | Wolves At The Door |
2010 | I’m Feeling Patriotic… (Well, more than usual, anyway.) |
Beating the Heat… | |
A Proper Price
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Freedom, On Summer Soldiers, On Sunshine Patriots, On Tyranny, Quotes, The Crisis, Thomas Paine on June 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Crisis“ | |
23 December 1776 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Well Hard |
2013 | Because I Can |
Eloquence, n. | |
2012 | Why Bother? |
2011 | Peculiar Notions |
Alone And Free
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Freedom, On Responsibilities, Quotes, Thornton Wilder on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. I hold that we can not be aware of our minds save under responsibility. | |
— Thornton Wilder | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Superstition Is Your Way |
2012 | Escape Hatches |
2011 | Sing Like No One Is Listening |
Are You Likely To Defend It?
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Archibald MacLeish, Loyalty and Freedom, My Journal, On Defending Freedom, On Freedom, Quotes on November 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
In the struggle for the defense of human freedom, everything depends on the vitality of the belief in man, on the health and vigor of the human things; and there is no way to maintain the human things but to know them… A free man is a man who knows and loves the things of which a man in freedom is capable. Only those who know what a man can be at his best, in his arts, in his conceptions, in his imagination and his realization, are capable of valuing freedom, and only those who are capable of valuing freedom are likely to defend it. | |
— Archibald MacLeish | |
From his book: “Loyalty and Freedom“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Might As Well |
2012 | The Long And Short Of It |
2011 | Bravery |
Determining Our Degree Of Freedom
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged André Maurois, On Freedom, On Liberty, On Politics, On Respectful Opposition, Quotes on November 17, 2013| 2 Comments »
The degree of our worthiness to become a free people shall be determined by our ability to respect a lawful leader, to agree to the existence of an opposition, to listen to its arguments, and especially to put the nation’s good above all party prejudices and private interest. Liberty is not one of man’s inalienable rights’. It is a desirable but difficult acquisition, and must be contended for constantly. | |
— André Maurois | |
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On This Day In: | |
2012 | Journalism And Fantasy |
Known Knowns | |
Jerk, n. | |
2011 | Love Questions |
Fly!!
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged C. JoyBell C., http://courtingmadness.wordpress.com, On Freedom, On Reasons To Be Born, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes on September 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky! | |
— C. JoyBell C. | |
[Found at: http://courtingmadness.wordpress.com | |
The specific post is: http://courtingmadness.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/i-wasnt-born-to-stand-on-the-sidewalk/ | |
There is an image to go with the quote. Please click through to the original posting for the full effect. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2012 | Greater Love |
2011 | Before |
The Price Of Illusions
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Economics, Frank Zappa, On Freedom, On Politics, Philosophy, Quotes on July 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. | |
— Frank Zappa | |
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On This Day In: | |
2012 | Once Again |
2011 | And The “Market” Isn’t Always Right |