Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
-Mike Norton
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
