Quotes About Freedom

a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.

Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men.

Puesto que el conocimiento, el pensamiento y la acción racional son propiedades del individuo, y puesto que la elección de ejercer o no su facultad racional depende de él, la supervivencia del hombre requiere que quienes piensan no sufran las injerencias de quienes no piensan.

Puesto que los hombres no son ni omniscientes ni infalibles, deben ser libres para estar de acuerdo o en desacuerdo, para cooperar o para seguir su propio camino independiente, cada uno según su propio juicio racional. La libertad es el requisito fundamental de la mente del hombre.

Una mente racional no trabaja bajo coerción; no subordina su comprensión de la realidad a las órdenes, las directivas o los controles de nadie; no sacrifica su conocimiento, su visión de la verdad, a las opiniones, las amenazas, los deseos, los planes o el «bienestar» de nadie.

Debo recordarte también que el derecho a la vida es la fuente de la que manan todos los derechos, incluido el derecho de propiedad.

In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort.

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.

I do not grant the terms of reason to men who propose to deprive me of reason. I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

Si un hombre muere peleando por su propia libertad, eso no es un sacrificio: no está dispuesto a vivir como esclavo; pero sí es un sacrificio para el tipo de hombre que está dispuesto a ser esclavo.

dejad al caníbal que gruñe que la libertad de la mente humana fue necesaria para crear una civilización industrial, pero no para mantenerla...

It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy that began the revolt against freedom and the demand for the return of the absolute state: it was the intellectuals. It was the alleged guardians of reason who brought mankind back to the rule of brute force.

es imposible que la gente viva sin quebrantar alguna ley.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other. The dollar sign, as the symbol of the currency of a free country, is the symbol of the free mind.

Lo que llamáis vuestra alma o espíritu es vuestra conciencia y lo que llamáis libre voluntad es la voluntad de vuestra mente para pensar o no, la única que poseéis, vuestra única libertad, la opción que controla todas las opciones realizadas por vosotros y determina vuestra vida y vuestro carácter.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. "I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.

Is it true that in the future society any woman will sleep with any man she wants," asked Renée Slottern. It had started as a question, but it petered out. She did not really want to know. She merely felt a vapid wonder about how it felt to have a man one really wanted and how one went about wanting.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

A qué le llamas libertad? –A no pedir nada. A no esperar nada. A no depender de nada. –¿Y si encontraras algo que quisieras? –No lo encontraré. Elegiré no verlo.

What is it that you're all doing here?" "Living.

I don't propose to force or be forced. Those who want me will come to me.