Firsts Quote by Friedrich Engels

“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and nature are…

— Francis Fukuyama

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

— Friedrich Engels

“Freedom is the opposite of necessity.”

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.”

— Vasily Grossman

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never…

— Hannah Arendt

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

— Jacques Ellul

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say,…

— Anonymous

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

— Karl Marx

“There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one tells your…

— David Foster Wallace