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
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity cannot exist.
-Richard Diaz
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
