Freedom Quote by Georges Bataille

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of…

— Augustine of Hippo

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should…

— Anthony the Great

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the…

— Giacomo Casanova

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

— Samuel Johnson

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

“Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to…

— Ulrich von Hutten

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

— Joseph de Maistre

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude…

— Rudolf Rocker

The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just…

— Henry Martyn