Top 100 Philosophy Freedom Quotes

#1. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Bella James

#2. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

#3. Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.

Vishwas Chavan

#4. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

John N. Gray

#5. Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

Aristotle.

#7. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Stefan Molyneux

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

#12. Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.

Nicholas Hochstedler

#13. 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

#14. Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

Frank Murphy

#15. To educate man is to give him a liberty for life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. 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

#18. True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you.

Debasish Mridha

#19. 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

#20. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#21. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.

Farquhar McHarg

#24. In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Amitav Ghosh

#25. 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

#26. You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#27. ...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

#28. No one can give you freedom; you only find it when you learn to overcome your fears.

Debasish Mridha

#29. No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.

Gina Wohlsdorf

#30. The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Adriano Bulla

#31. Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Freedom is the right to live without fear.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#33. Precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

A Gentlemen

#34. We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#35. Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Aristotle.

#36. Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

#37. Freedom is the courage to live your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

Gillian Duce

#39. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

Stefan Molyneux

#40. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Stefan Molyneux

#41. Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Stefan Molyneux

#43. The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Stefan Molyneux

#44. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#45. Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#46. My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Tim Robbins

#47. 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

#48. The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

Stefan Molyneux

#49. 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

#50. And I know just's well as anybody that if you control a man's space and time then you control his whole goddamn life: he's a goner, cause hell, there ain't nothin' for him to do in space and time but make the few choices he can make with what he got.

Nicholas Hochstedler

#51. The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#52. I can see the beauty of everything only through a fog.

Nrane Saroyan

#53. The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Brian Eno

#54. You have to choose your future regrets.

Christopher Hitchens

#55. Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that's free to make its own choices.

Michael Sanders

#56. When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

Joel Salatin

#57. Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Stefan Molyneux

#58. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

Stefan Molyneux

#59. I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Kevin Ayers

#60. I have never felt so alive - so free - so proud. I love my country. I love my America.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live

Suchet Chaturvedi

#62. I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

#64. For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Marti

#68. We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears.

Debasish Mridha

#69. The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Stefan Molyneux

#71. Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom.

Debasish Mridha

#72. 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

#73. Freedom is your birthright!

Tae Yun Kim

#74. Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

Debasish Mridha

#75. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Stefan Molyneux

#76. 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

#77. Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

Philip Dodd

#78. Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

#79. True freedom comes only from true wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#80. Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Stefan Molyneux

#82. I wouldn't want freedom all the time but it's nice to know it's attainable

Denis Hickey

#83. 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

#84. The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental.

Debasish Mridha

#85. I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

#86. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

#87. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

Stefan Molyneux

#88. Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

John Charles Chasteen

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Joshua Emmet

#92. Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

Abhijit Naskar

#93. To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

Debasish Mridha

#94. Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

Benny Bellamacina

#95. We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.

Ilyas Kassam

#96. Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#97. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Malcolm X

#98. The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#99. There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him.

Leo Tolstoy

#100. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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