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 what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
-Sergio Aragonés
"The Groo Chronicles"
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
