“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
More from Epictetus on Freedom
“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.”
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.”
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...”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
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.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
John Milton
5 quotes“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”