„Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.“
Origine: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
Contesto: Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
Rosa Luxemburg5
politica, teorica del Socialismo rivoluzionario, tedesca di… 1871 - 1919Citazioni simili
— Rosa Luxemburg Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary 1871 - 1919
Origine: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
— Michael Scheuer American counterterrorism analyst 1952
Al-Jazeera TV on September 11 and 12, 2005
2000s
— Muhammad Qutb Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar 1919 - 2014
Origine: Islam: the Misunderstood Religion, Chapter 12, p. 214.
„Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter “
— Rosa Luxemburg Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary 1871 - 1919
— Carroll Quigley American historian 1910 - 1977
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
— Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902 - 1994
Origine: On Freedom (1958)
Contesto: It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it. Poland fought for freedom as no other country did. The Czech nation was prepared to fight for its freedom in 1938; it was not lack of courage that sealed its fate. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 — the work of young people with nothing to lose but their chains — triumphed and then ended in failure. … Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
— Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883 - 1967
Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4. Aneurin Bevan said to Attlee afterwards: "That was a noble speech. I felt very proud", quoted in John Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p. 187.
1940s
— Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee Indian educator, jurist, author, diplomat, and Islamic scholar 1899 - 1981
Arun Shourie - The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action (2012, Harper Collins)
— Vasily Grossman Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer 1905 - 1964
1960s
— Rosa Luxemburg Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary 1871 - 1919
Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung (1920) p. 109 <!-- and in Rosa Luxemburg - Gesammelte Werke Vol. 4, p. 359, Footnote 3, Dietz Verlag Berlin (Ost), 1983 -->
This contains probably her most famous statement: Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden, translated as "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters."
Variant: Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Contesto: Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of 'justice', but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial, and detergent effects of dissenters. If 'freedom' becomes 'privilege', the workings of political freedom are broken.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist 1956
Origine: The Palace of Illusions
— Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895
"On Descartes' Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth" (1870) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/DesDis.html
1870s
Contesto: If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.
— John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
— Walter Reuther Labor union leader 1907 - 1970
Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 279
1950s, Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally (1959)
— Tigran Sargsyan Economist, politician 1960
Speech (11 December 2010), at official site of the Government of the Republic of Armenia http://www.gov.am/en/speeches/1/item/3114/
2010
