...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
"How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information"
Quotations
Freedom
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
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
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
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"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
How can you be free, if you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?
-Ann Marie Aguilar
