Aug 03, 2011 12:06
"the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, "this is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. from how many crimes, wars and murder, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
-jean jacques rousseau
"love, the strongest and deepest element in all lives, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little state and church-begotten weed, marriage?"
-emma goldman
"anarchy is not the absence of power, it is the absence of force; it is the free outflowing of the spirit into the forms in which it delights; and in such forms alone, as they grow and change, can it find expression which is not also a bondage."
-g. lowes dickinson
"we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
the first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
the second is the freedom of every person to worship god in his own way - everywhere in the world.
the third is freedom from want...
the fourth is freedom from fear..."
- franklin delano roosevelt