“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.” IfsUnderstandingGrowthRealizingLibertyTreeMovementWasteConsciousPaintUnnecessaryLiving Things Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.” MenChristRealizingLibertyDutyOccupationFulfillingFree ManShrinkingDistasteful Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.” GoalPresidentRealizingLibertyImpossibleSpeechConceptsSouthPopulationSpreadSouth AfricaComradeNelsonBright FutureHomogeneousLiberty And Equality Author:Jeff Cooper
“The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty . . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.” KnowsWorldGivingTwoSoulRealizingLibertyPerspectiveHabitTongueFamiliarFrameworkNew PerspectiveEnlargement Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf
“The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.” IfsMenDoeStatesSeemsRealizingForgetLibertyIndependenceCreatorDeclarationDeclaration Of Independence Author:Vaclav Havel
“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.” Has BeensIdeasWarHardStatesRealizingLibertyEconomicMiddlePoliceEastDecadesNo IdeaMiddle EastAsiaPolice StateEast AsiaGestapo Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.” ThinkingLooksNamesGivenPresidentRealizingLibertySecurityRepublicanAuthorityDemocraticRepublicFabricGiven UpCivil LibertiesDemocratic Republic Author:Jeremy Scahill
“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.” FirstsStillsStatesGovernmentPoliticalOpportunityLostGrowthRealizingLosesLibertyStepsRightsCitizensFundamentalsConstantPropertyLocalsSavingFirst StepsEncroachmentAmerican LibertyLocal GovernmentPerishingPolitical Change Author:James Bovard