We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is never given; it is won.
-A. Philip Randolph
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
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
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
-Jim Morrison
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
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