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
Quotations
Freedom
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
-Jim Morrison
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
"Going Out"
Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
