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Category: Freedom and Servitude

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1. "Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Quotations about: Authority, Government


2. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

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Quotations about: Education


3. "A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness."

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Quotations about: Happiness -:- Marriage


4. "Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

Charlie Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"

Quotations about: Authority, Government


5. "We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

Rabindranath Tagore


6. "Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"


7. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

Martin Luther King, "Why We Can’t Wait"


8. "If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, "Fragments"


9. "Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave."

George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"



10. "Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

Friedrich Engels


11. "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X, "Malcolm X Speaks"

Quotations about: Peace and War


12. "The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Saul Alinsky

Quotations about: Human


13. "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Quotations about: Human -:- Law and Crime


14. "My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I am a free citizen."

George Bernard Shaw, "Arms and the Man"

Quotations about: Authority, Government


15. "Where liberty dwells there is my country."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Patriotism


16. "A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"

Quotations about: History and Nations


17. "Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."

Karel Čapek

Quotations about: Human


18. "Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- History and Nations


19. "We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

John Donne, "Eighty Sermons"

Quotations about: Life and Death


20. "The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like."

Jules Mazarin

Quotations about: Authority, Government


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21. "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

Hannah Arendt


22. "It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


23. "There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."

David Herbert Lawrence, "The Plumed Serpent"


24. "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen, "Pillars of Society"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


25. "A forest bird never wants a cage."

Henrik Ibsen, "The Master Builder"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals


26. "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

George Orwell, "The Road to Wigan Pier"


27. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"


28. "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams, "The Adams Family Correspondence"

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy


29. "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

James Graham Ballard

Quotations about: Normality and Madness


30. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

Quotations about: Human


31. "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

Adlai E. Stevenson II



32. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes


33. "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Scottish proverb

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Patriotism


34. "What we need is not freedom of the press, we need freedom FROM the press."

Oswald Spengler


35. "Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power."

Gerry Spence

Quotations about: Power and Weakness


36. "In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol


37. "Give me blood and I shall give you freedom."

Subhas Chandra Bose

Quotations about: Pain and Tears


38. "It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Authority, Government


39. "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Authority, Government


40. "The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy."

Gerry Spence

Quotations about: Richness and Money


41. "Freedom can occur only through education."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Education


42. "The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky

Quotations about: Various



43. "Before you can break out of prison, you must realize that you are locked up."

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44. "Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery."

William Penn


45. "Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority."

Eric Hoffer


46. "Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos."

Cullen Hightower


47. "The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge), "End of an Age"


48. "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest."

Eric Hoffer, "Passionate State of Mind"

Quotations about: Human


49. "Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

R. G. Collingwood, "Speculum Mentis"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


50. "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."

Ivan Illich, "Tools for Conviviality"

Quotations about: Envy

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