Freedom Quote by Epictetus Epictetus

“If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.”

— Ziad K Abdelnour

“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe…

— Epictetus

“I deny being a slave to any one thing. In any situation we can choose who we are and choose who we want to…

— Renee Ahdieh

“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do…

— Epictetus

“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”

— Pope Francis

“Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.”

— Euripides

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a…

— Epictetus

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

“He could do anything and it would be right, for he had made himself a willing puppet of God’s purpose and in so doing…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It's better to die free, than live as a slave.”

— Anonymous

“No situation can enslaved us, if we are free in our mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita