Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Quotations
Freedom
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"
