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
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman "
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-Jim Morrison
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
