Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
Quotations
Freedom
...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"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
