Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Freedom
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
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
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity cannot exist.
-Richard Diaz
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"
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
