“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
More from Epictetus on Freedom
“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 is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
“Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”