A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
Quotations
Freedom
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John F. Kennedy
"Kennedy's Inaugural address of 1961."
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
