"The average man does not want to be free, he simply wants to be safe."

-- H.L. Mencken

"There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is itself freedom."

-- Chogyam Trungpa

"In our quest for having, we give up our freedom."

-- William James

"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free."

-- Krishnamurti

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

-- John F. Kennedy

"As soon as a man apprehends himself as free and wishes to use his freedom, his activity is play."

-- Jean Paul Sartre

"Men are not free because they do not know what they love to do."

-- Krishnamurti

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

"Acceptance is always freedom no matter what you're accepting."

-- Cheri Huber

"Free, we are not the number One, the first of al objects, but Zero -- their universal and Absolute Subject."

-- Wei Wu Wei

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

-- Saul Alinsky

"No man is free who cannot command himself."

-- Pythagoras

"A man needs a little madness or else he never dares to cut the rope and be free."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Not free from what, but free for what?"

-- Nietzsche

"If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches."

-- Lord John Boyd Orr

"Amour l'enfant liberte." (Translation: "Love is the child of freedom.")

-- Tattoo on the wrist of a waitress at the Uptown Cafe

"If you don't look at the evil in others, you are free."

-- Sodo Yokoyama

"Freedom comes when behavior arises spontaneously and is not conditioned by memory."

-- Laurence Boldt

"When a man no longer feels he must be remarkable, he is more free to be himself and work according to his own wishes and talents."

-- Daniel Levinson

"The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

-- John Ciardi