E. O. Wilson Quotes

Man above all institutions!

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

All theory is against freedom of the will, all experience for it.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.