Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
"How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information"
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-Jim Morrison
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein