Quotes About Freedom

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.