Danielle Steel Quotes

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

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

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.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

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

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The individual is greater than the state.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.