Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Quotations
Freedom
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
-Sergio Aragonés
"The Groo Chronicles"
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"
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"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
