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"
Quotations
Freedom
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
...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"
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman "
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
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
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity cannot exist.
-Richard Diaz
