Atheism Quote by Lucretius

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

— Samuel Johnson

“And it is plain enough, not from this instance only, but from many everywhere, that freedom is an excellent thing since even the Athenians,…

— Jim Lacey

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous…

— Ezra Taft Benson

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their…

— Ayn Rand

“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and…

— Plutarch

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if…

— Samuel Adams

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the…

— Nelson Mandela

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

— Vladimir Lenin

The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and…

— George Gurdjieff

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But…

— Thomas Paine