„I’m under no illusion about the continued barriers to freedom that remain for ordinary Cubans.“

— Barack Obama

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„Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.“
— B.F. Skinner
„In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slaveowners. Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that “they cannot be bothered with democracy,” “cannot be bothered with politics”; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life. The“
— Vladimir Lenin
„There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.“
— Cassandra Clare
„For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.“
— Emil M. Cioran