Famous Quotes

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

Karl Marx on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "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 on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Karl Marx

• "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

• "Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

• "It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."

• "Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."

• "The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."