Atlas Quote by Franz Kafka

“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“Atlas gazed out, as he always did, into infinite space, wishing he could be part of it, even for one hour.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom…

— Louisa May Alcott

“He understood privacy and freedom of expression were paramount to liberty, as incompatible as they may appear. One promoted yelling and screaming, while the…

— Shelter Somerset

“It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.”

— Paul Auster

Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid…

— Dean Koontz

“But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the kind that…

— Lavie Tidhar

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never…

— Anonymous

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

— G. D. H. Cole

“And then, however limited his sphere, he still preserves in his bosom the sweet feeling of liberty, and knows that he can quit his…

— Charles William Eliot

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape…

— Jostein Gaarder