Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility."

"Man cannot escape being free; in every choice he makes, he is affirming what he believes is valuable."

"Radical freedom means that humans must accept radical responsibility."

"Freedom without responsibility is anarchy; responsibility without freedom is tyranny."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman through the choices one makes and the life one leads."

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

"Every woman must teach herself that the struggle for freedom is the struggle for oneself."

"Society as a whole benefits when people are allowed to be themselves."

"The most radical thing a woman can do is define herself on her own terms."

"One cannot be truly free while dependent on the approval of others."

"One cannot live authentically while following the script written by others."

"One cannot be a free woman in a society that denies women freedom."

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

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's being locked up, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I want to die as I have lived, in complete independence."

"Crime and infamy are preferable to the humiliation of obedience."

"It may be said that the prime condition of freedom is the abolition of dogmatism."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"We are free agents, but we are free to obey the laws of nature."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"The deepest principles of our being demand freedom."

"Chains are broken not by force but by understanding."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who wanted others to be free."

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

"Freedom is not given; it is taken by those brave enough to seize it."

"One's ultimate freedom lies in the ability to choose one's response to any circumstance."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"It is forbidden to forbid."