Quotations by Subject
Freedom Page 9 of 15
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The government of one's self is the only true freedom for the individual. |
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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. |
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own. |
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. |
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The heavy hanging chains shall fall, |
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. |
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free, First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. |
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The labor of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and this is it which makes the poor happy. |
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The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. |
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. |
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. |
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The meager pleasures of camp life provided a kind of negative happiness-- "freedom from suffering," as Schopenhauer put it... |
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. |
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. |
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The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. |
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The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds. |
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The politics of the nervous system involves the minds against the brain, the tyrannical verbal brain disassociating itself from the organism and world of which it is a part, censoring, alerting, evaluating. |
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The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. |
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The right to personal freedom comes second in its importance to the duty of maintaining the race. |
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The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. |
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