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
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"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
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"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
