„Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.“

„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 Luxemburg Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary 1871 - 1919

Origine: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"

„Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter “

—  Rosa Luxemburg Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary 1871 - 1919

„I think that some people over here imagine that the Socialists are out to destroy freedom, freedom of the individual, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the freedom of the Press. They are wrong; the Labour Party is in the tradition of freedom-loving movements which have always existed in our country, but freedom has to be striven for in every generation, and those who threaten it are not always the same. Sometimes the battle of freedom has had to be fought against kings, sometimes against religious tyranny, sometimes against the power of the owners of the land, sometimes against the overwhelming strength of the moneyed interests. We in the Labour Party declare that we are in line with those who fought for Magna Carta and habeas corpus, with the Pilgrim Fathers, and with the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.“

—  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

„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.“

—  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.

„This in short is the case of the progressives who talk about freedom of thought. For them freedom of thought is synonymous to freedom of disowning one's God. This is, however, not freedom of thought but freedom of atheism.“

—  Muhammad Qutb Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar 1919 - 2014

Origine: Islam: the Misunderstood Religion, Chapter 12, p. 214.

„Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.“

—  Bergen Evans American lexicographer 1904 - 1978

The Natural History of Nonsense XIX.

„‘The greatest gift of the modern world to man is freedom,’... ‘—freedom to think, freedom to speak, freedom to act.’“

—  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)

„…we were brainwashed into believing… that the only important thing was individualism. They called it freedom. There is no such thing as freedom. There is something called liberty; it's quite different. …read [Guido de] Ruggiero's History of European Liberalism… Freedom is freedom from restraints. We're always under restraints.“

—  Carroll Quigley American historian 1910 - 1977

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)

„It's always been hard for me to understand how we say people who supports Osama Bin Laden or someone else like him – who are willing to give their lives to destroy the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia – how we can describe those people as people who hated freedom. It seems to me that their definition of freedom might be different than ours, but to oppose a dictatorship, one must want freedom in some kind of way.“

—  Michael Scheuer American counterterrorism analyst 1952

Al-Jazeera TV on September 11 and 12, 2005
2000s

„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.“

—  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.

„Freedom is an indivisible value and when the freedom of one is threatened the freedom of all is in jeopardy.“

—  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)

„The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.“

—  John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826

1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)

„We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom.“

—  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

„…there's always an element of crime in freedom.“

—  Ralph Ellison, libro Invisible Man

Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.

„What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.“

—  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer and aviator 1900 - 1944

„We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.“

—  Anastas Mikoyan Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman 1895 - 1978

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

„Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.“

—  Jonathan Stroud British writer of fantasy fiction 1970

Origine: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set

„There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.“

—  Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977