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
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
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
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
-Bob Marley
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
...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"
