Quotes About Freedom

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.