We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Quotations
Freedom
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
