Quotes on Freedom

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Don't let the man bring you down.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Through discipline comes freedom.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.