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Quotes About Freedom

In order to exist, man must rebel.
~ Albert Camus
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
~ Albert Einstein
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
~ Anthony Wayne
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
~ Anton Chekhov
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
~ Baruch Spinoza
If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.
~ Benjamin Tucker
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
~ Carl Sandburg
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
~ Marian Keyes
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
~ Martin Buber
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
~ Maurice Blondel
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
~ Max Stirner
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
~ Maya Angelou
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
~ Miguel de Cervantes
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
~ Paracelsus
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
~ Pat Conroy
Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.
~ Paulo Coelho
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.
~ Peter Kropotkin
We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
~ Plato