Freedom

To deepen our comprehension of the existing world is an act of the freest choice and most evident self-activity.

The ideal of the republic is diversity of human character, and hence the preservation of individuality.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

To be educated is to be free.

The virtuous man is self-sufficient; for all the goods of others are his.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within your control, and some things are not.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I wish that the one that I love would cause me to lose everything and everyone, so that I might find true freedom.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

Once you label me you negate me.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Don’t let other people tell your story. Don’t let other people decide what you can and can’t do.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom.

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.