“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
More from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Freedom
“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
“It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.”
“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
5 quotes“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”