Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
Quotations
Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
-Santosh Kalwar
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
