Simone Weil Quotes

A man is born free.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Children have their own mind.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Freedom is such a gift.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Only the educated are free.