I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Freedom
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
