The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Freedom
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
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"
Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
