We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Freedom
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus
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"
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
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
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
