Being human Quote by Isaiah Berlin

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is…

— Isaiah Berlin

“Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From a biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

— Nate

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What…

— Anonymous

“Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have…

— Danielle S. Allen

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

— Samuel Smiles

Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to…

— Boris Yeltsin

“The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.”

— Michel Templet

“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery…

— Burke Strunsky

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero