7,738 Quotes About Freedom

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.

It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.