Freedom Quotes

"Freedom requires responsibility."

"Freedom is not the absence of necessity but the mastery of it."

"No man can legislate for another."

"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white, but to transcend that very choice."

"The administered world leaves no room for the unplanned, the spontaneous, or the free."

"The more we claim to be free, the more thoroughly we are integrated into the system."

"Freedom of thought requires enemies—those who resist the logic of the system."

"What we experience as freedom is often the most subtle form of constraint."

"What passes for freedom is often the freedom to choose between predetermined options."

"The culture industry produces not liberation but the managed simulation of liberation."

"Liberty is not the absence of all restraint, but the right to choose your own chains."

"The most fundamental of all rights is the right to be let alone."

"The liberty of the ancients was participatory, the liberty of the moderns is protective."

"To live without freedom is to exist, not to live."

"Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history."

"Freedom is no longer a political concept in the modern world."

"The public realm is where freedom appears."

"Freedom is not the absence of necessity, but the comprehension of necessity."

"Consciousness of freedom is itself a form of freedom."

"Necessity and freedom are reconciled in the rational will of the state."

"True freedom consists in the knowledge and willing of the universal."

"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor."

"A person may not decide to enslave himself voluntarily, because he cannot, whatever his current desires, bind himself, and future selves."

"Liberty upsets patterns."

"We each own ourselves and therefore have the right to do whatever we wish with ourselves so long as we do not violate anyone else's rights."

"The right to freedom includes the right to keep what one has earned."

"Voluntary cooperation is the appropriate basis for legitimate social institutions."

"Each of us has a life to lead and rights that protect our ability to lead it."

"Persons are not resources to be allocated by central authorities."

"Voluntary exchange respects the agency and separateness of both parties."