The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Freedom can occur only through education.
