David Gemmell Quotes

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

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 resides within the soul.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

In my soul, I am free.

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

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

Examine what is around you and see that princes and masters have power over your body alone, not over your soul, and always keep this in mind. Why when they order, say, to kill or to do something else, inappropriate, unrighteous and harmful for the soul, it is not proper to obey them, even though they torture your body. God has created the soul free and self-ruled, and it is free to do as it wills, good or bad

No man's mind can possibly lie wholly at the disposition of another, for no one can willingly transfer his natural right of free reason and judgment, or be compelled to do so.