freedom Quotes

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.