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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.