Following yesterdays blog, I've been giving a lot of thought to the word "freedom". I've therefore posted below a few of my favourite quotes on the subject.
Before I get into the quotes, today I was inspired to do the following drawing of a dolphin (using pastels). It's inspired from a necklace I bought in Boston to remind me not only of my epic Atlantic journey but also to remind myself of how wonderful it felt to see the wild dolphins on route. I hope you like it as I enjoyed doing it and pleased with how it turned out.
Now the quotes:
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. (C. Wright Mills)
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. (H. L. Mencken)
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky)
Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl)
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. (Nelson Mandela)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. (Mahatma Gandhi)
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Soren Kierkegaard)
And on that last quote, I hope everyone in blogland is having a good weekend!! Take care everyone!
2007-11-11 @ 17:32