Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-Jim Morrison
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John F. Kennedy
"Kennedy's Inaugural address of 1961."
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
