"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
- Søren Kierkegaard
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This appears to be derived from the following passage in Either/Or, Part I:
"Aren’t people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don’t have; they have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
You can check it out on page 37 of this translation: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/36ba381a-9850-4782-a471-dbe0bfa3c3b6/downloads/Either_or%20-%20S%C3%B8ren%20Kierkegaard%20(pdf).pdf?ver=1611846256813
@johnnylogic @ethicsinbricks
Quite an expansion on that passage, if so!