A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
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 never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
-Joel Salatin
"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
