Sam Levenson Quotes

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.