Freedom Quotes

I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

It is good to obey all the rules when you're young; so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

It is incongruous that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passports.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

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

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.