Freedom Quotes

"The word liberty in the mouth of every man means a different thing."

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

"The workers have a world to win and only their chains to lose."

"The more a man has, the more he is enslaved by necessity."

"As long as supply and demand are the only rule of production, there can be no freedom."

"No one can be free unless he is free from the pressure of necessity."

"The free man owns himself; the wage earner owns nothing but his labor."

"True freedom comes through the perfection of intellectual culture."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely license for chaos."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person."

"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves."

"There is no reason that all human existence should be constructed on some one or some small number of patterns."

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."

"The evil of tyranny is that it squelches individual development."

"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are not two different things; they are the same thing."

"No society in which liberty is not, on the whole, respected, is free."

"There should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character."

"The true principle of toleration towards unpopular opinion is that it must not be silenced."

"The individual flourishes only when allowed to pursue their own vision of the good life."

"It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth."

"A person cannot thrive when forced to silence their true self."

"True freedom lies not in doing what we wish, but in willing what is good."

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

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

"You must be willing to ignore what people think of you."

"The freedom to be as crooked as we please in pursuit of our material objectives is no freedom."

"No one can be fully free until all are free."

"Once you label me, you negate me."

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