Freedom Quotes

"Freedom to act must be balanced with responsibility for consequences."

"Liberty is the power to act according to one's nature."

"Man is free when he acts according to reason and his true nature."

"The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more enslaved you are."

"Human bondage and human freedom are opposites, like slavery and liberty."

"The more we are determined by external causes, the more we are subject to passion."

"The more one is determined by external forces, the greater one's servitude."

"To desire without understanding is to be enslaved by one's own appetites."

"Those who are slave to their passions see only the good in what pleases them."

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

"Freedom of the will is the highest achievement of human nature."

"The will is by nature so free that it can never be constrained."

"The slave of desire is the most wretched of slaves."

"To be free is to be master of your thoughts."

"Freedom then is not what Sir Robert Filmer tells us...a liberty for everyone to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws."

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"To make a man free, give him knowledge; to keep him enslaved, deny it to him."

"Freedom demands the responsibility to use it wisely."

"The sweetness of liberty is lost without a touch of repugnance in our breast."

"I would rather be a poor man in a cottage with a free mind than a king with a captive one."

"Liberty and necessity are compatible, and the true system of the universe rests upon their compatibility."

"Freedom is the natural state of the rational being."

"The mind must be free to seek truth wherever it leads."

"The mind is free when it is not enslaved by the body's desires."

"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."

"He alone is free who exists solely from the necessity of his own nature."

"The more we are determined by external causes, the more we are passive."

"Freedom is not the absence of necessity, but the understanding of it."

"External causes cannot prevent the mind from understanding."

"To be free is to be determined by one's own nature alone."