Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
Quotations
Freedom
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
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"
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
If we sincerely want to become a liberated person, then we have to be willing to be independent in a world where so few truly think for themselves.
-Andrew Cohen "Andrew Cohen"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
A person’s freedom can be seen as being valuable in addition to his or her achievements.
-Amartya Sen
