Freedom Quotes

"I'm such a fool, I can't be free."

"Now I'm free to be myself."

"True freedom is achieved not through wealth or power, but through the mastery of desire."

"Our greatest prison is not external chains, but the chains we forge in our minds."

"To be free from want, one need not possess much, only understand what one truly needs."

"Those bound by superstition are not truly free, regardless of their circumstances."

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

"The greatest blessing of mankind is freedom of thought."

"The athlete who is bound by his chains of gold is no less a slave than he who is bound in iron."

"Freedom is a burden as much as it is a gift."

"Freedom without responsibility leads only to ruin."

"It is not the function of government to make you happy. It is made to make you free."

"The chains of marriage are often heavier than any physical bondage."

"Freedom is the natural state of the enlightened person."

"No one is free who is not master of himself."

"Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency."

"You can't live your life for others."

"The choices we make define us more than the circumstances we're born into."

"The real prison is the one we build in our minds."

"The most radical thing we can do is choose ourselves."

"The future isn't predetermined—we're writing it every day."

"The past only has power if we let it."

"In the end, it is the deeds of free peoples that determine the future."

"Freedom isn't about doing whatever you want; it's about being yourself."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve one's liberty."

"Slavery is the natural state for some, freedom for others."

"There is no greater evil than slavery."

"A man who knows himself is truly free."

"The free man owns himself. He can command himself."