All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.” — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The country therefore was not “born free” but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»” — Umar ibn Al-Khattab Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
“We are all born free of religion, but none of us are born free of the need for compassion.” — His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
