Freedom Quotes

"In the end, the awakening of consciousness is the greatest danger to those in power."

"The right to be wrong is the first casualty of total administration."

"We mistake the expansion of choices for the expansion of freedom."

"Freedom would mean the ability to imagine and live by values not yet commodified."

"The only way to get beyond ideology is to assert one's taste against all ideology."

"To be free is to be nomadic, to keep moving, to never settle."

"We must escape the tyranny of interpretation."

"What we call normal is just the most successful tyranny."

"The greatest gift is not love but the freedom to become yourself."

"Individuality itself has become a commodity packaged and sold back to us."

"The totally administered society leaves no remainder, no space for genuine otherness."

"What the culture industry calls freedom is merely the freedom to choose among pre-selected options."

"The impulse toward autonomy persists even in the most thoroughly integrated society."

"The expansion of communicative action in society is essential for human freedom and dignity."

"The ideal speech situation requires freedom from domination and the equal opportunity to participate in dialogue."

"The autonomy of individuals cannot be achieved in isolation but only through recognition by others."

"Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience."

"Freedom is precious and demanded by human dignity."

"We want not to be crushed by arbitrary power."

"The essence of liberty is the ability to question and challenge prevailing orthodoxies."

"A man cannot be fulfilled unless he is able to exercise choice."

"Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating those rights."

"Liberty upsets patterns."

"Pattern-maintenance requires constant interference in people's free choices."

"Self-ownership gives rise to significant rights."

"Freedom is a fundamental human value."

"Patterned principles of justice are incompatible with liberty."

"Rights constrain what may be done to individuals."

"Individual liberty should be paramount."

"Rights protect individuals from being treated as mere resources."