Desire Quote by Epictetus

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

— Epictetus

“Freedom is formed by achieving your true desires.”

— Steven Redhead

“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

“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

“To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man’s requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For a man to find true freedom, he must free himself from the grip of his fears.”

— Kevin May

“Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims.”

— Voltaire

“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.”

— Russell Brand

“Freedom ... is about how you can survive after things are taken from you. It is about the prospect of losing what you love…

— Indira Ganesan

“If men are denied the chance to live in freedom, they will make their own freedom.”

— Frank Sherry

“Without freedom of sex; all freedoms are temporary.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

— Epictetus