John Brunner Quotes

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among all people. It was the first time in human history where people were allowed to pursue the best of their abilities to whatever desire they wanted, because it was a nation founded under the concept of human beings being born free.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?