People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Quotations
Freedom
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"
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"
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
