Joseph Campbell Quotes

The individual is greater than the state.

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

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

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 have one abiding religion-human liberty.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the State.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

Civil liberty is the power of a civil society or state to govern itself by its own discretion or by laws of its own making, without being subject to the impositions of any power in appointing and directing which the collective body of the people have no concern and over which they have no control

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

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.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.