It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
