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"
Quotations
Freedom
When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.
-Kristi Bowman
"Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening"
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
-Jonathan Hennessey
"The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
-Bob Marley
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
-Thomas Sowell
"Knowledge And Decisions"
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
