Quotes About Freedom

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

Only the man who says no is free

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.