Jacques De Molay Quotes

He who is served is limited in his independence.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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

Do not deliver yourself up as a slave to any man.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

You are either free or not free

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

Freedom from something is not freedom.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

Freedom always comes with a price.

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

To change masters is not to be free.

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.