I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
Quotations
Freedom
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-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"
Open up, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
