Quotes About Freedom

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.