Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Freedom
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
