My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Quotations
Freedom
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
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"
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
-Mike Norton
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
...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"
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
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
