Freedom

Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.

A book should serve as an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into Freedom.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine which intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power . . . can never willingly abandon it.

The jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails.

The price we have to pay for money is paid in liberty.

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Habit, n . A shackle for the free.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free.

HERESY IS ONLY ANOTHER WORD FOR FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

JUST LIVING IS NOT ENOUGH… ONE MUST HAVE SUNSHINE, FREEDOM, AND A LITTLE FLOWER.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.