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
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
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"
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
