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"
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 we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
-Mike Norton
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-Jim Morrison
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
