Truly Free Quotes

60 quotes by 52 authors

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting… — Mikhail Bakunin
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… — Jean Cocteau
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will… — Mary Robinson
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be. — Robin Williams
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a… — Benedetto Croce
No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy. — Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
Only the person who risks is truly free — William Arthur Ward
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves… — E. O. Wilson
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is… — Adyashanti
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. — George Berkeley
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in… — Frederick Douglass
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. — Steven Pressfield
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand… — N. T. Wright
Man is only truly free only among equally free men. — Mikhail Bakunin
A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value, — Charles Koch
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard
Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free — Christine Caine
When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, youâ€™re truly free. — Steve Pavlina
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another… — Ezra Taft Benson

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