How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. (Søren Kierkegaard)

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Søren Kierkegaard

Related topics

absurd demand freedom men speech thought use

Related quotes

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. View quote
Henry Miller
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. View quote
Charlotte Whitton
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. View quote
Dean Acheson