Freedom Quotes

"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."

"Man will never truly be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"It is much harder to withstand freedom than authority."

"We cannot expect perfect freedom; we can only expand our limited freedom progressively."

"Every person deserves the chance to become who they were meant to be."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free, or die."

"Freedom begins when we stop fearing our own authenticity."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed, but anything further is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

"The age of the individual is just beginning."

"I believe in the individual."

"Freedom is the ability to say no."

"I understand that you object to what I write, but I would die for your right to object."

"The true basis of the social contract is that men shall be free to hold any opinions they please."

"Being an atheist is nothing to be ashamed of."

"Do not become a slave to anything."

"The greatest wealth is the freedom to think your own thoughts."

"Freedom is the right to fail."

"Think for yourself."

"Freedom is the only thing worth having."

"The greatest luxury in life is the ability to be completely yourself."

"The mind that is afraid to think is the mind that is enslaved."

"Freedom is not given, it is taken."

"Suppose no one paid any attention to that and so you could go on and it would be true they have that to do."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life."

"The people are the real guardians of freedom."

"Freedom is never given, it must be taken."

"Each generation has its own obligation to free men's minds."

"I have been a Stoic but Stoicism is a form of slavery in the last analysis."

"The artist works to be free."