„I look upon human beings as automatons.. because they all think they can do what they want but they can't. They are not free. No one is“

„Looking back… I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.“

—  Kim Young-sam South Korean politician 1927 - 2015

Interview http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/asia/kim-young-sam-former-president-of-south-korea-dies-at-87.html?_r=0 (2009)
2000s, 2009

„I realize what I am. I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I’m not a helicopter pilot. What I’m really free to do is I feel free to follow my own personality. As we discussed yesterday, I can’t be totally wacko in what I do. It affects lots of other people who will get angry with what I do because then it affects me again. But on my own island or on my own ranch, I can think the thoughts I want to think. I can do the work I want to do and I’m free to explore as I see fit.“

—  Jeffrey Epstein American financier, science and education philanthropist and sex offender 1953 - 2019

In a January 2003 interview with David Bank, as quoted by Tyler Durden in Epstein Tapes Emerge: Dead Pedophile Describes His Lifestyle In Unearthed Recordings https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-14/epstein-tapes-emerge-jeffrey-epstein-describes-his-lifestyle-unearthed-recordings, ZeroHedge, 15 August 2019. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M511Wp-elHE, Bloomberg Markets and Finance, YouTube

„That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.“

—  Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Źródło: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

„With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.“

—  George Fitzhugh American activist 1806 - 1881

Źródło: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 170

„This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want
If you don't think you can't,
So don't think you can't – think you can.“

—  Charles Inge

"On Monsieur Coué", Epigram in The Week-end Book (1928), p. 217.

„I've lost interest in the theatre because you can't get what you want ever. I used to think it would be wonderful to see what you had written come to life. Here in Australia it's very hard to get an adequate performance because of the state of the theatre; but even if you have the best actors in the world it's never what you visualised. One can't say all one wants to say, one can't convey it.“

—  Patrick White English-born Australian writer 1912 - 1990

In The Making (1970)

„Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158

„I made a metamorphose, I'm a new person today, because I used to strongly and honestly, honestly! I feel like I can represent my generation so much because I honestly did not care whether I lived or died. But now I can not die, with people thinking I'm a rapist or a criminal, I can not leave until this shit is straight, you know I'm not suicidal. I can't go until ya'll really know what time it is. And then after that, BOOM!, It's all over and we can see how this shit fall, but that's how it is, and the reason being is because if I can't live free, if I can't live with the same respect as the next man, I don't wanna be here, because god has cursed me to see what life should be like, If God wanted me to be this person and be happy here, he wouldn't let me feel so oppressed, he wouldn't let me feel so trampled on, you know what I'm saying, he wouldn't let me think the things I think. So I feel I'm doing Gods work, you know what I'm saying just because I don't have nothing to pass around for people to put money in a bucket don't mean I ain't doing God's work.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

„I want to scream and shout, "Stop! We are all human beings!"…but I don't think anybody will hear it.“

—  Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968

From Her Books, INVISIBILITY

„You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.“

—  Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)

„You and I do not meet on one branch or in one place. You make your way along one path and I along another. Your questions arise from human thinking, and I respond from a knowledge that is far beyond all human comprehension. You must give up human understanding if you want to reach the goal, because the truth is known by not knowing You must give up human understanding if you want to reach the goal, because the truth is known by not knowing“

—  Henry Suso Dominican friar and mystic 1295 - 1366

The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

„Somebody said that Bertolt Brecht [German socialist writer of political theater] wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here [in America] all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way.“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Źródło: 1975, p. 26

„Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.“

—  Norman Schwarzkopf United States Army general 1934 - 2012

Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 60

„I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.“

—  Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011

Interview in TIME (10 October 2004)

„They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means.“

—  Philip K. Dick, Boża inwazja

The Divine Invasion (1981)

„It is quite likely that it is possible, yes. But what we've said all along -- speaking for both the (Roslin) Institute and the PPL staff - is that we would find it ethically unacceptable to think of doing that. We can't think of a reason to do it. If there was a reason to copy a human being, we would do it, but there isn't.“

—  Ian Wilmut embryologist 1944

On human cloning, in "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?" by Andrew Ross in Salon February 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000301033550/http://www.salon.com/feb97/news/news2970224.html.

„I can't even look at those "women's magazines" anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.“

—  Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

„I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, "What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?", and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, "Is there hope?"“

—  Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939

„I don’t know what I’m looking for.”
“What not?”
“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.“

—  Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Źródło: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy