My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Quotations
Freedom
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"
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
-Santosh Kalwar
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
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."
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman "
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
