Freedom Critique Quotes

America certainly is a great country with plenty of freedoms, but there are a lot of systemic issues that need to change.

Twenty years ago, I was part of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the vote and maybe, in certain places, lack of police harassment. You can live anywhere you want and do anything you want - if you have the means.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.