Quote by James Allen

“I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes…

— Nelson Mandela

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

— Pythagoras

“A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.”

— Ilyas Kassam

“He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

“He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters.…

— Jack Whiteside Parsons

“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”

— W.H. Auden

“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

“My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he…

— Teodor Flonta

“He who conquers his mind attains liberation.”

— Shiva Negi