Freedom Quotes

"Human freedom consists in the capacity to reinterpret and reshape our inherited traditions."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door that he does not see."

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

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far 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."

"Intellectual freedom is the foundation of all human progress."

"True freedom consists in the ability to serve others."

"Every man has a right to do what he will with his own."

"Freedom requires the capacity for self-governance."

"The reduction to pure consciousness reveals the radical character of human freedom."

"Freedom appears in consciousness as the ability to adopt different intentional stances."

"We must learn to think of freedom as a responsibility."

"Man must be free to question everything."

"The autonomy of the individual is the highest achievement of human development."

"Freedom is realized through understanding one's place in history."

"Freedom is the condition of morality."

"True freedom is found in obedience to natural law."

"The freedom to think is the foundation of all freedom."

"The freedom to which I am referring is not the absence of necessity, but rather the presence of choice."

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

"Freedom means not being ruled. It does not mean ruling others."

"Human beings have made a certain kind of agreement that we call civilization. Breaking this agreement is not freedom; it is slavery."

"Man is not merely an individual to be molded by society, nor society merely an external force imposed upon him."

"The true way to freedom is through knowledge."

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free."

"Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man."

"Individual freedom is the best guarantor of social welfare."

"Freedom is the condition of mental development."

"Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but its transcendence."

"Prejudice apart, the wordsnative and foreign born must seem to us pretty much alike."