Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
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"
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
-Mike Norton
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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."
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
