“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”
More from Jean-Paul Sartre on Freedom
“Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.”
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
“A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.”
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...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
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“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.”
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.”