‘If I had to do it again I would do it again. Because the cost was high. It was men, women, civilians and military that gave their lives, not for us, they gave their lives for democracy, for liberty, for freedom. And I don’t mind paying any price under the sun to be free.’ Guillermo Ford, vice-president of Panama, interview The Panama Deception 1992
When you’re dead already, you’re free. Peaky Blinders s4e2: Heathens, Polly, BBC 2018
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your TV, follow fashion. Act normal, obey the law, and repeat after me, I AM FREE. Wolvoman80, Fuck the System II, Youtube 1.55.08
We are here because we are not free. The Matrix Reloaded 2003 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Hugo Weaving & Carrie-Anne Moss & Jada Pinkett Smith & Gloria Foster & Harold Perrineau & Monica Bellucci & Lambert Wilson et al, director Wachowski brothers, Agent Smith
National Defense Authorization Act: Americans could now be subject to indefinite detention and even murder without the benefit of due process. Counter-Intelligence s1e5: Drone Nation, 2013
Freedom breeds inequality … Unless you have freedom to be unequal, there is no such thing as freedom. William Buckley to Gore Vidal, cited Best of Enemies ***** 2015
The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted. Game of Thrones: The Wars to Come s5e1, captured leader, HBO 2015
The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre spent a lifetime defying conventional logic. The man who never felt so free as under German occupation would go on to challenge almost every assumption about the way we live in his search for freedom. Human, All Too Human 3/3: The Road to Freedom, BBC 1999
This is a world in which we are not only condemned to be free but in which freedom is the freedom to do anything at all. ibid.
‘There’s nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.’ ibid. Sartre, La nauesée, 1939
He was now more convinced than ever that the main threat to individual freedom came from the state, and he joined those calling for its overthrow. ibid.
Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases. Alan Wilson