[F]reedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that “Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,” as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars...

Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom...

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you’ve tasted it, ou never want to let go.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it was true. He had glimpsed a new and improbable explanation for the atomic...

It would be better for the Russian authorities to show that there are some elements of civil society and freedom, and not block our organizations from taking part in mass demonstrations.

Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you...

After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France,...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone...

To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with – is to live on the right of the spectrum.

Do not allow others’ doubts in you keep you from achieving your dream.Do not allow the doubts of others keep you from being free.

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Deambular no significa andar sin rumbo, sino andar con todos los rumbos.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies — the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe....

When you aren’t satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn’t need to complain.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a...

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order...

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Describing Bonhoeffer’s demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with “with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches...

Quello che non ho è quel che non mi manca.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them

Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the...

In the name of freedom and redistribution of wealth, I’ve decided to grow a beard on my chest.

A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the...

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in...

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...