Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
- Jeffrey T. Borenstein
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Søren Kierkegaard
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
- Paulo Coelho
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
- Emma Lazarus
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
- Toba Beta
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- Sigmund Freud
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