It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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More Quotes from Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
More on Freedom
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Liberty only survives when it is defended.
No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.