Quotes About Freedom

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?