Freedom

To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven.

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?… The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

In free society art is not a weapon … Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine which intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Freiheit ist immer nur Freiheit des anders Denkenden .

We all profess the deepest regard for liberty; but no sooner does anyone claim to exercise it than we declare with horror that we are in favor of liberty but not of licence, and demand indignantly whether true freedom can ever mean freedom to do wrong, to preach sedition and immorality, to utter blasphemy. Yet this is exactly what liberty does mean.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers .

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

Lord of yourself, uncumber’d with a wife.

Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. 13

What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live?

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.

The jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.