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Category: Freedom and Servitude

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1. "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

2. "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

3. "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

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

Ivan Illich, "Deschooling Society"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

5. "The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

Herbert Agar

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "Freedom is participation in power."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

7. "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Albert Camus

8. "Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

William James

Quotations about: Life and Death

9. "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Abraham Lincoln

10. "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. "

James Baldwin

11. "Tyranny is always better organised than freedom."

Charles Péguy

Quotations about: Authority, Government

12. "A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

Amiri Baraka

13. "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

George Santayana, "Little Essays"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

14. "Liberty is always unfinished business."

Anon.

15. "Too much liberty spoils all."

English proverb

16. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

Albert Einstein

17. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Good and Evil

18. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

Thomas Jefferson

19. "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Human

20. "Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."

Anon.

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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21. "I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Peace and War

22. "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Peace and War

23. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Patriotism

24. "This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."

William Faulkner

25. "The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."

George Eliot, "Silas Marner"

26. "We must believe in free will - we have no choice."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

27. "Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

28. "We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live."

Rabindranath Tagore

29. "Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

Bob Marley

30. "There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."

William Somerset Maugham

31. "Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

32. "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

33. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Egoism

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