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
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
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
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
