“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
More from Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Freedom
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)”
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”
“Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.”
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
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...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
5 quotes“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”