4.28.2006

Thought on Freedom

Quote I saw on a local business marquee:

"Freedom calls for responsiblity, that's why most men hate it."

There was no source attributed, but I found 2 similar quotes:

"Most people to not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsiblity, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
--Sigmund Freud

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
--George Bernard Shaw

Either way, it's a thought very reminiscent of some of the thoughts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

"To create something you must be something."

"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

"Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned."
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