Mortimer Adler Quotes

I want to have freedom with everything I do.

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

No man may make another free.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

I am pro-freedom.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.

Freedom looks differently when you are the one it is being practiced on.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.