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
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
-Jim Morrison
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
