Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
...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"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
-Santosh Kalwar
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
