People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
Open up, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
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
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
