It is a strange fact that freedom

“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”

— Thomas Mann

Author: Thomas Mann
Category: freedom
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With my government, we engaged in bringing

“With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.”

— Ahmed Ben Bella

Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
Category: freedom
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Before anything else, we need a new

“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Category: freedom
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