Freedom Is Dangerous Quotes

#1. Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

Octavia E. Butler

#2. Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Isabel Paterson

#3. Too much freedom is dangerous to those who cannot cope with the responsibilities that accompany independence.

Anonymous

#4. I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Dave Sim

#5. To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

CrimethInc.

#7. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

William O. Douglas

#8. A fool is very dangerous when in power.

Denis Fonvizin

#9. I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Henrik Ibsen

#11. It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!

Edward Bond

#12. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom
less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.

Nenia Campbell

#15. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

#16. The work of freedom is messy, dangerous, and intentionally uncomfortable. Here's a simple test: if the action step you're taking isn't really costing you your comfort, chances are you're not doing enough.

Dennis Johnson

#17. The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Cornel West

#18. To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#19. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all
the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

#20. It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#21. Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Adlai Stevenson I

#22. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire

#23. I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

Jack Parsons

#24. But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

Peter Davison

#25. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

#26. It towers above us, dark an jagged an dangerous. Behind it, more mountains stretch as far's the eye can see.
Is this th'only way to Freedom Fields? I says.
No, says Jack. I brought you this way because I thought you'd enjoy the scenery.

Moira Young

#27. Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Harry S. Truman

#28. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

#29. Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

Vaclav Klaus

#30. The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Natan Sharansky

#31. Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Borne

#32. Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Jose Rizal

#33. Therefore, beware of everything that takes away your freedom. Know that it is dangerous, and avoid it by all the means in your power.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman