quote: freedom

  • You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. – John Morley

  • Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?” – Joseph H. Jackson

  • Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire

  • All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. – Arthur C. Benson

  • Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly…

  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – Soren Kierkegaard

  • Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. – Edith…

  • You can’t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it’s just a cage. – Terry Pratchett

  • You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd.  You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.  It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes…

  • People unfit for freedom — who cannot do much with it — are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a “have” type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a “have-not” type…