Freedom Quotes

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Liberty is knowing the truth, and the truth is setting you free."

"The true freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the proper ordering of one's desires."

"The most dangerous prison is one we build within our own minds."

"To live is to choose but to refuse to choose is also to choose."

"Liberty consists of the freedom to choose your own chains."

"I would far rather be myself and stand or fall by my own merits than by the countenance of any power."

"To be truly free, one must first free oneself from vanity."

"Custom and prejudice are the chains that bind the ignorant."

"True freedom exists only when one masters one's own desires."

"Freedom without responsibility becomes license for chaos and harm."

"A woman must have independent means to have independent thoughts."

"I am not fond of the idea of confining women to their homes."

"The power of using the understanding is the only foundation of freedom."

"A tyrant custom has forced women to be decorous, and this false respect paid to the sex has rendered it contemptible."

"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real or usurped, extends not over me."

"Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the only doctrine taught to women."

"There is no security, no safety, in the obedience of slaves."

"He is only a great man who is really free."

"Make women rational creatures and free citizens, and they will thenceforward insist on their rights as members of society."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"The greatest invention of mankind is the ability to choose."

"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."

"Liberty is the breath of the human spirit."

"Freedom without responsibility is mere chaos."

"Men are happiest when they are most free."

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn."

"Women deserve freedom as much as men."