Freedom Quote by Bertrand Russell

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and…

— Bertrand Russell

“To be free, above all, was to be free from enslavement to one’s own basest desires, which could never be fulfilled, and the pursuit…

— Patrick J. Deneen

“In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.”

— Bertrand Russell

“that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to…

— Philip Caputo

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.”

— Anonymous

“The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

“Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed”

— Steven Erikson

“I have never believed that man’s freedom consists in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“seeking to be free of something and freed to something.”

— Elizabeth Musser

“For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh