Born free Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

“A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can…

— George MacDonald

“No man is free unless he is the master of himself.”

— Epictetus

“We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master.”

— Huston Smith

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

— Pope Francis

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau