Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Quotations
Freedom
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
-Joel Salatin
"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity cannot exist.
-Richard Diaz
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
