Freedom Quotes
We can try and render the chains of mass surveillance invisible or undetectable, but the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.
Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
The air smells sweeter and time stands still any day you`re in the world and everyone else is working or in school.
Punk is musical freedom. It`s saying, doing and playing what you want. [...] `Nirvana` means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that`s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
There`s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
I wanted to be free, free to do and to give only as my whims dictated. [...] The moment anything was expected or demanded of me I balked. That was the form my independence took.
I think it`s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.