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“I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.”

Feelings Freedom Intellectual Absolutes Affection Nerves Wire American Life Intellectual Freedom

Author:Norman Mailer

“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Feelings Turns Freedom Painting Depends

Book:Blue Dog Man

Source: Blue Dog Man

“The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.”

“I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Feelings Would Be Freedom Goodness Majority Convinced Criminals Generous Villain Thieves Restraint Murderer Repression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.”

People Way Feels Persons Feelings Parent Born Freedom Birth Refuse Surrender Destroyed Subtle Daring Imprisonment True Feelings

Author:Jim Morrison

“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”

Ifs Thinking Love Life Feels I Can Real Feelings Freedom Simple Animal Alive Truth Is Being Real Cages Uncommon Caged Love Feeling Caged Animal

Author:Angelina Jolie

“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”

Wells Littles Hard Feelings Wisdom Freedom Wise Tasks Kingdoms Self Control Restraint Governing Thoughts And Feelings Self Restraint

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.”

Ifs Feelings Freedom Havens Buddhist

Author:Ajahn Chah

“I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.”

Should Feelings Government Freedom Chance Liberty Equal Spring Should Have Independence Surrender Spots Sentiments Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Fear Freedom Known Safety Trade Scary Limitless Limitless Potential

Author:Philip K. Jason