„To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness — care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret “I am free,” then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.“

— Bruce Lee

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„It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.“
— John Dewey
„This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„There was an apparent disorder in his personal life style…resented any restriction on his freedom…for him freedom meant a constant movement of the intellect and imagination…He moved in different directions at the same time that he could only look forward and beyond.“
— Zakir Hussain (politician)
„… to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements“
— Theodor W. Adorno
„Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.“
— Rosa Luxemburg