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Quotes About Freedom

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.
~ Lady Gaga
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
~ Johann Most
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
~ George Mason
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
~ Douglas MacArthur
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.
~ Eric Gill
A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man
~ Shelagh Delaney
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.
~ Jean Dubuffet
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
~ Booker T. Washington
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
~ Herbert Spencer
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
~ Herbert Spencer
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
~ Herman Melville
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
~ Ignazio Silone
The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
~ James Otis