Individual Freedom Quotes
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
— John Stuart Mill
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
— Saul Bellow
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
— Ralph Hall
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
— William F. Schulz
Freedom comes in individual packages.
— Shirley Boone
I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya
— Lydhia Marie
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.
— Jalal Talabani
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.
— Christopher Fry
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
— Pankaj Mishra
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
— Ayn Rand
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
— David O. McKay
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
— Andrew Cohen
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.
— Nikolay Dobrolyubov
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
— Pearl S. Buck
My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
— Niall Ferguson
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
— Howard Stern
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
— Ashim Shanker
The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.
— Bruce Lee
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
— William J. Brennan
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
— Saul D. Alinsky
When the complexity of social patterning is reduced, so is individual freedom.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against ... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
— Dennis Chavez
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the ... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
— Michel De Certeau
Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
— Albert Einstein
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
— Ronald Reagan
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
— Ron Paul
The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.
— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God.
— M.F. Moonzajer
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
— Dean Acheson
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
— Jimmy Wales
Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.
— Georg Buchner
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
— Park Dietz
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
— Michael Novak
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.
— A.E. Samaan
Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.
— Newton Lee
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
— Robert H. Jackson
We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.
— A.E. Samaan
Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.
— Miguel Ruiz
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
— Boris Sidis
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
— Herbert Marcuse
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
— Sun Yat-sen
Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?
— Joshua Emmet
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
— Thomas Jefferson
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.
— Esther Perel
Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.
— Patrick H. O'Neil
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
— G. D. H. Cole
And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good.
— Kameron Hurley
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
— Garrett Hardin
The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.
— Dmitry Pisarev
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
— Matt Drudge
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.
— A.E. Samaan
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
— Norman Cousins
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
— Rand Paul
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
— John Bolton
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
— Albert Einstein
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
— Margaret Walker
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege
— Noam Chomsky
Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.
— Michael Baumgartner
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
— John Updike
Utopians ... consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
— Thomas Steven Molnar
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
— Dave Brubeck
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.
— Russell Shorto
They think the only road is where they're heading, but you and I were meant to sail upon the sea.
— Heather Dale
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.
— Milton Friedman
Democracy is in conflict with individual freedom.
— Bruno Leoni
A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
— Chris Patten
Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.
— Frank Knight
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
— Ernest Istook
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
— Jane Smiley