Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Quotations
Freedom
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
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"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
