The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

I cried during my wedding, but my wife did not. That’s natural, because I was losing my freedom, and she was gaining a slave.

all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.

There is nothing wrong with falling in love. Don't trip and bump your head only to realize you're experiencing infatuation.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.