W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.

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

Nobody likes not having freedom.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty… because till spiritual freedom was made manifest, political liberty did not exist.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I want to have freedom with everything I do.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.