We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Freedom
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman "
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
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
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"
...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"
Freedom is realizing you have a choice.
-T. F. Hodge
"From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with The Divine Presence"
Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
-Sergio Aragonés
"The Groo Chronicles"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
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
