We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Quotations
Freedom
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
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
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
...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"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
