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
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
How can you be free, if you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?
-Ann Marie Aguilar
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
