Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the...

You’re absolved,” I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There’s no fucking way he knows what that word means. That’s a word I dream someone will say to me.So I put it...

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself...

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don’t give up on your right to, and sense of,...

Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares – the propensity and vocation to free thinking – this gradually works back upon the character of the...

RENUNCIATION is the rightful path of the soul to true freedom, & only then Peace can follow in the life.

It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of its citizens. It is obvious that even the freedom it pretends to guarantee...

. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a site significantly made by these contributors. It’s unavoidable that we come to this,...

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That’s what is most important if you want to be free: respect for...

Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that...

It was because ‘in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.’ The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man in society.The Declaration of Independence was the product of Intellectual Emancipation,...

So gewiss es ist, dass ich meine Sara ewig lieben werde: so wenig will es mir ein, dass ich sie ewig lieben soll, – soll!

The concept has always been to give Andy as much freedom as we can.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

We don’t look at the sky anymore, instead we stare at boxes that keeps us captive; we don’t walk barefoot any more, we refuse to kiss the earth with our feet, we keep busy worrying...

The forest fleer has been expelled from society, the anarch has expelled society from himself. He is and remains his own master in all circumstances. When he decides to flee to the forest, his decision...

They’ll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.

It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift...

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

Seeking wholeness is a contradiction in terms; wholeness is an implicit possession of our being. As guardians of our wellbeing, we must rise above human constructs of being that are incompatible with our intended design....

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

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like...

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth!...

Vergnügen ist ein Lied der Freiheit, – Aber es ist keine Freiheit.

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that...

We’re all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand.”I’ll find you,” he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. “I won’t let you go again.”I don’t trust myself to speak. Instead I nod,...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on...

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

You said you freed me, but freedom isn’t defined by chains or walls. You, alive, with me. That’s my freedom.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the...

(“A Free Market in Education: The Answer to Prayer, And Other Issues”)No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict. The answer...

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab.

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power – in politics, the economy or the family.

She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.