Immanuel Kant Quotes

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Human freedom is realized in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end

The individual is greater than the state.

I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow …. Liberty … consists in the full development of all the material, intellectual and moral powers that are latent in each person; liberty that recognizes no restrictions other than those determined by the laws of our own individual nature …

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I'm doing what I want to do.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.