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
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
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
How can you be free, if you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?
-Ann Marie Aguilar
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
