Immanuel Kant Quotes

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

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

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

A man is either free or he is not.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

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

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Every day brings new choices.

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.