
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
“To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.””
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiv, note
From a collection of hundreds of quotes set to music and available online at Maharaji's personal website http://www.maharaji.net/ (2001)
2000s
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Source: The Wild Palms
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.
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting