Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
Quotations
Freedom
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 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"
Open up, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
