Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
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English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921–2004Related quotes
“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
“To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.””
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiv, note
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
From a collection of hundreds of quotes set to music and available online at Maharaji's personal website http://www.maharaji.net/ (2001)
2000s
Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Source: The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004), p. 62
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
Context: Intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of the feasibility of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economy, and culture.
But freedom of thought is under a triple threat in modern society—from the deliberate opium of mass culture, from cowardly, egotistic, and philistine ideologies, and from the ossified dogmatism of a bureaucratic oligarchy and its favorite weapon, ideological censorship. Therefore, freedom of thought requires the defense of all thinking and honest people.
Robert McKee (1941) American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
