The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
Freedom
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"
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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
