Quotations
Freedom
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
- Toba Beta
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
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
- Joseph O'connor
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
- Nelson Mandela
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
- Paulo Coelho
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- Ambrose Bierce
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
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
- Jean Paul Sartre
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