A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Quotations
Freedom
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
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"
If we sincerely want to become a liberated person, then we have to be willing to be independent in a world where so few truly think for themselves.
-Andrew Cohen "Andrew Cohen"
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
