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
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 a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
