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"
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is never given; it is won.
-A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is realizing you have a choice.
-T. F. Hodge
"From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with The Divine Presence"
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"
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
