Freedom Quotes

"Nobody has the right to obey."

"Freedom is impossible without equality."

"The realm of freedom is the realm of human action."

"The greatest threat to freedom is not oppression but thoughtlessness."

"Freedom means nothing if not the freedom to act."

"Freedom emerges in the space between persons."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the presence of alternatives."

"The preservation of freedom requires constant vigilance."

"The capacity for renewal is the basis of human freedom."

"Freedom without responsibility is anarchy."

"Freedom is the burden and gift of existence."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the ability to act within and through the frameworks that constitute our social world."

"Freedom is not unlimited choice, but the ability to understand and affirm the choices we make."

"Freedom is not given, it is earned through understanding."

"The freedom to do is the freedom to be."

"Man must choose to be either a subject or an object in his relations with others."

"We are trapped by our conceptual schemes; philosophy helps us escape."

"Necessity binds the will when it binds reality."

"Obedience to truth is the foundation of freedom."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos dressed in fine clothes."

"Responsibility precedes freedom."

"Freedom is only meaningful in relation to responsibility."

"Being for the Other is the true meaning of freedom."

"The path of freedom is paved with the acknowledgment of constraint."

"Freedom is inseparable from our obligation to others."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being cast into prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

"One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment, but not further."