Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is meaningless without the means to exercise it materially."

"I am truly free only when all human beings are equally free."

"Freedom is the natural right of all conscious beings."

"Freedom cannot be given; it must be seized."

"I believe that freedom means responsibility, not privilege"

"Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither"

"Woman is truly enslaved when she is denied the right to her own thoughts and feelings"

"The real slavery is the slavery of ideas"

"Liberty is worthless if we are not free to fail"

"Nature teaches us that freedom cannot exist without order."

"The chains that bind us are often of our own making."

"True freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."

"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance against tyranny."

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same; leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order."

"Thought is freedom in its essential form, but freedom of thought is a recent invention."

"Sexuality is not something we inherit; it is something we create and recreate through our actions."

"Discipline creates docile bodies, but docile bodies are not free bodies."

"What oppresses us is not truth but the imposition of a single interpretation of truth."

"Freedom is not something to be possessed but something to be practiced."

"The question of who we are is always entangled with the question of what we are allowed to be."

"We are not born into freedom; freedom must be continuously struggled for and recreated."

"The more one owns, the more one is owned; I am owned by my shadow."

"Freedom without economic security is merely freedom to starve."

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of individuals under the division of labor has disappeared."

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please."

"To abolish the state is the final goal of every true revolution."

"The history of mankind shows that there is no such thing as perfect freedom."

"Self-activity and self-determination are the essence of human freedom."

"In the eyes of the law, a man is either free or not free; the middle state does not exist."

"Freedom is not permission granted by authorities but power seized by the people."