Quotes about Freedom

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.