10 Freedom Quotes By Some Of The Greatest Thinkers Of Their Time – MensXP.com

Freedom has different meaning in everybody's life. For someone it could be freedom of choice, speech, truth or anything else and for you it could be something different. So, the question is why does everybody crave for it so much? Maybe because it is in our human nature and who doesn't like to be natural and free.

Here are some of the famous freedom quotes given by some of the greatest thinkers of their time. See if you agree with them.

1. Freedom Is Not Worth Having Unless It Is The Freedom To Make Mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

2. "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." John Basil Barnhill, writer

3. Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell, British writer

4. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

5. There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Charles Kingsley, social reformer

6. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular Adlai Stevenson, American politician

7. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist

8. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt, writer

9. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

10. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa

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