Quotes About Freedom

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

All good things are wild, and free.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

He who is brave is free.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos