Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle.

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The war must go on to last man of this generation falls in his tracks … unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence, and that, or extermination, we will have

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

Nor let it be supposed that any people is likely to remain content with semi-independence [autonomy]. It may welcome this as a first step, a partial concession, but not for long. There is no logical stopping place, no halfway house which will make a permanent home on the road to equality, and those who have once got well started on that road grow increasingly impatient and resent every effort to delay them on their way to their final goal.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.