Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Quotations
Freedom
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
-Santosh Kalwar
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"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
-Joel Salatin
"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity cannot exist.
-Richard Diaz
