Quotes about freedom
567 quotes from 261 people
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; “Sensus Communis”.
Niall Fergusonborn 1964Interview, ‘Westerners don’t understand how vulnerable freedom is’, The Guardian (20 February 2011)
Herbert Marcuse1898–1979One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 71
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours (1997)
Aeschylus525–456 BCAgamemnon, line 1364–1365
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954United States v. Spector, 343 US 169, 180 (1952) (dissenting)
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., p. 190Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
Roger Ebert1942–2013Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion (1990 Edition), p. 735The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.
John Rawls1921–2002A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 210I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Blood of Others [Le sang des autres] (1946)The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long.
Angela Merkelborn 1954Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in an Exchange of Toasts on June 07, 2011.I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 52I come to state that I’m a man, free to think for myself and do as I please.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Langston Hughes1901–1967“Democracy” (poem, also titled “Freedom”)Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)