The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Freedom
When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.
-Kristi Bowman
"Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening"
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
