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Jun 13, 2024

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality and ostentation.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection, they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

- Benjamin Tucker

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free … so other people would be also free.

- Rosa Parks

To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.

- Michael Malice

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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

- Frederick Douglas

An anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

- Benjamin Tucker

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

- Socrates

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

- Zig Ziglar