Freedom Quotes

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"Freedom's highest manifestation is choice."

"Blessed is the person who is spared the agony of choice."

"Dread is the vertigo of freedom."

"Human freedom is not achieved through knowledge but through will."

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

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

"The right to think, to speak, and to act with freedom - these are the prerequisites of happiness."

"Liberty and safety are the great objects of human pursuit."

"The freedom of the individual must always be balanced against the welfare of the whole."

"In the hierarchy of human needs, freedom ranks above all others."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient slave-owning societies"

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

"Men are not free to choose their productive forces; every choice is based on previously existing productive forces"

"The liberation of the worker is the liberation of humanity"

"True freedom consists not in absence of constraint, but in living according to natural laws."

"The triumph of positivism liberates humanity from superstition toward enlightened cooperation."

"The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity are exercised only in making a choice."

"The individual is not accountable to society for his own conduct in so far as it concerns nobody but himself."

"The tyranny of opinion is as formidable an enemy to human flourishing as any political despotism."

"Despotism may govern without crime but cannot govern without slaves."

"The price paid for uniformity is always paid in human character."

"Custom is like a devouring monster which will devour all rational thought."

"Freedom is the condition of all good and the negation of it is the root of all evil."

"Freedom without knowledge is merely chaos."

"The freedom to think is the most precious human freedom."

"Freedom is nothing else but that magnificent feeling of responsibility."

"The Spirit is free, and it is freedom."

"The ultimate result of the historical process is freedom, in and for itself, as the consciousness of freedom."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."