FREEDOM QUOTES IV

quotations about freedom

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

WILLIAM PITT

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Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spiritual shackles that have bound men. The battles for freedom where fought by the oppressed, those who wanted new liberties, against those who had privileges to defend. While a class was fighting for its own liberation from domination, it believed itself to be fighting for human freedom as such and thus was able to appeal to an ideal, to the longing for freedom rooted in all who are oppressed. In the long and virtually continuous battle for freedom, however, classes that were fighting against oppression at one stage sided with the enemies of freedom when victory was won and new privileges were to be defended.

ERICH FROMM

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Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

EMIL CIORAN

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Freedom all solace to man gives
He lives at ease who freely lives.

JOHN BARBOUR

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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

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For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

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

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

MICHEL AOUN

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

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Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

WALT DISNEY

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Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

WILHELM REICH

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

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It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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I was a dweller amid shadows grim:
Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo!
Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,
As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night.
New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart,
Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world:
And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

GERALD MASSEY

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Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

ERICH FROMM

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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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