The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Goethe – Humanity, Freedom
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Goethe – Wisdom, freedom
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Benjamin Franklin – Freedom of Thought
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Cicero – Society, Freedom
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Cicero – Freedom
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."
Eric Hoffer – Talent, Freedom
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – Freedom
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt – Freedom
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt – Economy
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Brooks Adams – Liberty
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
Albert Einstein – Motivation, Freedom
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell – Liberty
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell – Freedom
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus – Culture, Freedom
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
