Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness. Care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret. “I am free,” then, you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
Have a vision. Be demanding.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.