Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Freedom
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
If we sincerely want to become a liberated person, then we have to be willing to be independent in a world where so few truly think for themselves.
-Andrew Cohen "Andrew Cohen"
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-Jim Morrison
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"
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
