Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Quotations
Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
