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"
Quotations
Freedom
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
