So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Quotations
Freedom
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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 of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
-Joel Salatin
"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"
