My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Quotations
Freedom
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
