I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment—individual liberty. That’s what it'sall about. And that's whatsocialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed. … I feel much safer in your company.
Murray Bookchin, speaking to a crowd of anarcho-capitalists and other libertarians at a Libertarian Party Conference, depicted inAnarchism in America, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (15 January 1983).
The closer a man approachestragedy the more intense is his concentration ofemotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what inlife we callfanaticism.
Arthur Miller, Introduction, Section 1,Collected Plays (1958).
It takes two things tochange the world, and you'd besurprised how many people have goodideas, but—commitment? true commitment?—that's the hard one. It requiressacrifice.
Fictionalised portrayal ofJulian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) inThe Fifth Estate (5 September 2013), screenplay by Josh Singer. The line appears from 0:47:35 to 0:47:49 and is partially repeated in voice-over from 1:51:43 to 1:51:55.
