“Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.” — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.” — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
