Freedom Concept Quotes

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

No doubt that a great deal of nonsense has been written about the “unalienable rights of individuals.”

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

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

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

I think 'Freedom's Goblin' is a very political title.

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

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

The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

There is no such thing as part freedom.