We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
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"
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.
-D. J. Niko
"The Tenth Saint: Book One"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
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
