"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

Albert Einstein

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes"

Mahatma Gandhi

"Quand la vérité n'est pas libre, la liberté n'est pas vraie."

Jacques Prévert

" For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

Nelson Mandela

"Vrijheid van mening vereist dat je er een hebt."

Johann Gottfried von Herder

"La liberté est un aliment de bon suc, mais de forte digestion. Il faut des estomacs bien sains pour la supporter."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Negeer de overheid"

Tom Hodgkinson

"Vrijheid biedt de mogelijkheid om jezelf vrijwillig te beperken."

Herman De Croo

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"

Charles Kingsley

"Qui ne s'est jamais laissé enchaîner, ne saura jamais ce que c'est la liberté"


Serge Gainsbourg

"Donner la liberté au monde par la force est une étrange entreprise pleine de chances mauvaises. En la donnant, on la retire. "

Jean Jaurès

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

Edward R. Murrow

"How to be free? Well, like it or not, you are free. The real question is whether you choose to exercise that freedom"

Tom Hodgkinson

"An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"

Uit ‘Wiccan Rede’, Doreen Valiente

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."


Pearl S. Buck

"Oh freedom Oh freedom Oh freedom over me
and before I'd be a slave I'll be burried in my grave
and go home to my Lord and be free..."

(negro spiritual)

Hoe het -lichtjes vals- klinkt uit de mond van een stel overjaarse hippies:

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Vrijheid is niet een middel naar een hoger politiek doel. Het is het hoogste politieke doel."

Lord Acton

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire