Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
-Sergio Aragonés
"The Groo Chronicles"
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
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
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
