A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Quotations
Freedom
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
...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"
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
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
