
„None but ourselves can free our minds.“
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
— Edward Snowden, Snowden, Chomsky, and Greenwald discuss privacy https://vimeo.com/160952562, on 35:21.
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
— Charles Manson, Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
Context: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 a.C.
— Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
Context: Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association (including the party) is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views. Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.
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— Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
— Phil Brooks, Straight Edge significa che sono libero da droghe, libero dall'alcol e migliore di voi]
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
Statement to the press (23 November 1991), the day before his death, as quoted at The Biography Channel http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/338:294/1/Freddie_Mercury.htm.
— Louise L. Hay American writer 1926 - 2017
— Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938
Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
— Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991
An ironic statement which Singer made in many interviews over many years; here quoted in "Isaac Singer’s Promised City" http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_3_urbanities-isaac.html City Journal (Summer 1997)
Variants or variant translations:
We must believe in free will — we have no other choice.
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
This makes more sense if you consider the statement "we must believe in free will; we have no [other logical] choice"
— Sadhguru, Mind is your Business