„My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.“
— Charles Bukowski
„What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!“
— Benito Mussolini
„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
„These same institutions produce quite different effects while they are still being fought for; then they really promote freedom in a powerful way. On closer inspection it is war that produces these effects, the war for liberal institutions, which, as a war, permits illiberal instincts to continue. And war educates for freedom. For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. That one becomes more indifferent to difficulties, hardships, privation, even to life itself. That one is prepared to sacrifice human beings for one's cause, not excluding oneself.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche