“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”– Friedrich Engels Related Quotes “I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”– George Papandreou “Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There’s nothing that says I can’t write a page of full stops. There is no ‘should’ involved, although you wouldn’t know that from literary reviews and critics.”– Kate Atkinson “Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.”– Mikhail Bakunin