This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
José Martí, fully José Julián Martí Pérez
The dagger plunged in the name of Freedom is plunged into the breast of Freedom.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that his nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Iris Murdoch, aka Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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Acceptance of death is acceptance of freedom – freedom to live each day with clarity and courage… If we know we are going to die, all danger disappears. There is less fear about what can go wrong, because the worst that can possibly go wrong – our own death – is completely assured. All there is left to do is live, and live well.
Acceptance | Courage | Danger | Day | Death | Fear | Freedom | Wrong | Danger |
We consider progress as legitimate only when it reinforces, rather than undermines, freedom and democracy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome.
Simply to be a human being is to be a futurist of sorts. For human freedom is largely a matter of imaging alternative futures and then choosing among them.
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Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr
The Protestantism which stems from Luther has continued to concentrate its energies upon maintaining the freedom of the Word and has been inclined to yield to political and economic forces in what seem to be purely temporal matters.
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To regain the freedom of our Will, we must become consciously aware of what we have been subconsciously choosing. Then we can choose anew.
Prince Metternich, fully Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Meaning in life is determined by how we choose to experience the world, not by how the world experiences us. We are all born with the freedom to put whatever meaning we’d like into our lives.
Freedom and Liberty are not synonyms. Freedom is an essence; Liberty, an accident. Freedom is born with a man; Liberty may be conferred upon him… Freedom is the gift of God; Liberty, the creature of society. Liberty may be taken away from a man; but on whatsoever soul Freedom may light, the course of that soul is henceforth onward and upward.
Accident | Freedom | God | Liberty | Light | Man | Society | Soul |
Generosity’s aim is twofold: we give freely to others, and we give freely to ourselves. Without both aspects, the experience is incomplete. If we give a gift freely, without attachment to a certain result or expectation of what will come back to us, that exchange celebrates freedom both within ourselves as the giver and the receiver… In a moment of pure giving, we really become one.
Expectation | Experience | Freedom | Generosity | Giving | Will | Expectation |
William Safire, fully William Lewis Safire
Economic freedom cannot exist without political freedom.
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