Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

The disciplined are free.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Freedom is from within.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

It is yours [the state’s right] to shackle the body, and restrain our external actions; that is a restraint we understand. Announce your penalties, and we will make our election of submission or suffering. But do not seek to enslave our minds.

Every man is by … natural right, the master of his own thoughts

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

We are freer than we think.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.