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
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
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
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
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
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
