Quotes About Freedom

Happiness, they say, can't be ordered like a steak in a restaurant. Like love, its very essence is freedom. This is true. But like love, happiness can be wooed and won.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.

Celui qui vous maîtrise tant n'a que deux yeux, n'a que deux mains, n'a qu'un corps, et n'a autre chose que ce qu'a le moindre homme du grand et infini nombre de nos villes, sinon que l'avantage que vous lui faites pour vous détruire.

Première raison de la servitude volontaire, c'est la coutume

Soiés resolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libres.

I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

Somos subjugados porque concordamos e entregamos nossa liberdade por uso do nosso livre-arbítrio. Não se trata de natureza, não é sina ou destino, mas a vontade dos homens de se curvarem diante do poder. A servidão é escolha, e, naturalmente, escolha voluntária.

Yet, in the light of reason, it is a great misfortune to be at the beck and call of one master, for it is impossible to be sure that he is going to be kind, since it is always in his power to be cruel whenever he pleases.

FOR THE PRESENT I should to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him.

Mais, à parler à bon escient, c'est un extrême malheur d'être sujet à un maître, duquel on ne se peut jamais assurer qu'il soit bon, puisqu'il est toujours en sa puissance d'être mauvais quand il voudra ; et d'avoir plusieurs maîtres, c'est, autant qu'on en a, autant de fois être extrêmement malheureux.

Pour ce coup, je ne voudrais sinon entendre comme il se peut faire que tant d'hommes, tant de bourgs, tant de villes, tant de nations endurent quelquefois un tyran seul, qui n'a puissance que celle qu'ils lui donnent ;

Voir un nombre infini de personnes non pas obéir, mais servir ; non pas être gouvernés, mais tyrannisés ; n'ayant ni biens ni parents, femmes ni enfants, ni leur vie même qui soit à eux !

C'est le peuple qui s'asservit, qui se coupe la gorge, qui, ayant le choix ou d'être serf ou d'être libre, quitte la franchise et prend le joug, qui consent à son mal, ou plutôt le pourchasse.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

é um extremo infortúnio estar-se sujeito a um senhor, o qual nunca se pode se certificar de que seja bom, pois sempre está em seu poderio ser mau quando quiser; e em ter vários senhores, quantos se tiver quantas vezes se é extremamente infeliz.

siempre es una fatalidad tener que estar sujeto a un dueño, cuya bondad no ofrece más garantías que su capricho: y el depender de muchos es tener que sobrellevar otras tantas desgracias.

Mais, ô bon Dieu ! que peut être cela ? comment dirons-nous que cela s'appelle ? quelle malheur est celui-là ? quel vice, ou plutôt quel malheureux vice ? Voir un nombre infini de personnes non pas obéir, mais servir […].

Tek bir iste?im vard?: Gitmek, yürümek ya da ölmek, umurumda de?ildi. Uzakla?mak istiyordum, kaybolmak, ormanda ve bulutlarda eriyip gitmek, hat?rlamamak, unutmak, unutmak.

Pero yo creo que puedo escribir lo que me dé la gana, aunque sea imposible, aunque no sea verdad.

I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.

Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.