Quotes About Freedom

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

The idea of "the free development of personality" seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

Voor de democraat staat vrijheid niet gelijk aan alles kunnen zeggen wat je denkt, maar aan niet over alles hoeven nadenken wat je zegt.

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

Reformar la sociedad por medio de leyes es el sueño del ciudadano incauto y el preámbulo discreto de toda tiranía. La ley es forma jurídica de la costumbre o atropello a la libertad.

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

To find oneself at the mercy of the people's whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

Equality of opportunity" does not mean the possibility for all to be decent, but the right of all not to be decent.

Feudal anarchy" is the word which democratic terrorism uses to slander the only period of tangible freedom known to us.

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called "human rights" serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another's duty.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

Our freedom has no other guarantee than the barricades which the anarchic countenance of the world throws up against the imperialism of reason.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

To educate man is to impede the "free expression of his personality.

Freedom is the myth of unoccupied, empty, void souls. When nothing guides us, freedom seems an admirable program of action. In truth, freedom does not solve the problem of the lost soul in a universe of pure contingency, but imposes its own directives.

The price for absolute freedom is boundless vulgarity.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

If liberty is to last, it should be the goal of social organization and not the starting point.

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it.