A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Quotations
Freedom
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
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"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
