Top 100 Freedom Philosophy Quotes
#1. Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Epictetus
#2. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Murray N. Rothbard
#3. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
#5. When it comes to marijuana, I think it's ridiculous to live in a country that espouses freedom, liberty and equality, yet won't follow through on a philosophy that says: "If it's not hurting anybody or their property, you can do any goddamn thing you want."
Nick Offerman
#6. Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
Walter Block
#7. If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#8. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.
Stefan Molyneux
#9. Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
William James
#10. The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The whole humanity together must start working on focusing on reinforcing the elements of love and compassion from Islamic philosophy into the general human psyche.
Abhijit Naskar
#13. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.
Kenan Malik
#14. None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.
Debasish Mridha
#15. No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Rose Wilder Lane
#17. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.
Susan Neiman
#18. A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles Deleuze
#19. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Ilyas Kassam
#20. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.
Stefan Molyneux
#21. Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.
Kindness gives you the power of boldness.
Humility gives you the power of acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#22. What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?
Joshua Emmet
#23. And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,
Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that ties
My hair ... now could I but unloose my soul!
We are sepulchred alive in this close world,
And want more room.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#24. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
#25. Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom.
Michel Templet
#28. The price of freedom - of individuality - is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
Greg Bear
#29. One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...
Duncan McNaughton
#30. Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.
Frederick Lenz
#31. It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.
Theodor Adorno
#32. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba
yes Cuba too.
Malcolm X
#33. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.
C. G. Jung
#34. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
Ludwig Von Mises
#35. Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Max Stirner
#36. Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#37. A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
Chris Hedges
#38. The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount ... If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
Harry Truman
#39. Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins ...
T. Rafael Cimino
#40. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
Stefan Molyneux
#41. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.
Ferran Adria
#42. You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.
Stefan Molyneux
#43. Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
Stefan Molyneux
#44. All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#45. Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Leon Trotsky
#46. My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; 'living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships'.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#47. Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?
Novalis
#48. Freedom" -- we repeated to ourselves, and yet we could not grasp it. We had said this word so often during all the years we dreamed about it, that it had lost its meaning. Its reality did not penetrate into our consciousness; we could not grasp the fact that freedom was ours.
Viktor E. Frankl
#49. No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#52. When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Joel Salatin
#54. I can see the beauty of everything only through a fog.
Nrane Saroyan
#55. The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.
Stefan Molyneux
#56. Proving one's innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto for
a honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dear
ones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have your
freedom.
Sheeja Jose
#58. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
Stefan Molyneux
#59. Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.
Debasish Mridha
#60. ...in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away.
Immanuel Kant
#61. You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents.
Dick Couch
#63. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Stefan Molyneux
#65. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#66. True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you.
Debasish Mridha
#67. There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life.
Debasish Mridha
#69. There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Stefan Molyneux
#71. You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.
It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
Stefan Molyneux
#72. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Evan Sutter
#73. Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.
Ryan Holiday
#74. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
Stefan Molyneux
#75. To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.
Aristotle.
#77. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
Stefan Molyneux
#78. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
Malcolm X
#79. We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.
Ilyas Kassam
#81. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all
the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Randy Komisar
#82. When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or
Soren Kierkegaard
#83. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Stefan Molyneux
#84. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
#85. I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Michael Collins
#86. Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
Nathaniel Branden
#89. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#90. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
Lysander Spooner
#91. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
Stefan Molyneux
#92. Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.
Debasish Mridha
#94. The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom.
William J. Brennan
#95. Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
Stefan Molyneux
#98. The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti
#99. Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis
#100. In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.
Theodor Adorno
