Men like me who merely wish to establish political freedom will in such circumstances lose all their influence and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny a new oppression.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart the excision of its memory.

For you who no longer posses it freedom is everything for us who do it is merely an illusion.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom when it comes not merely philosophically but almost with pleasure.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Coercion after all merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.