Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

He who has stopped to calculate what liberty will cost has renounced liberty in his heart

Well you don’t have to do it.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

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.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.