Etienne de La Boetie Quotes

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.

Etienne de La Boetie

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• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Giving

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Welcome

• There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Freedom
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Remember
  • America
  • Freedom

• Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Page

• But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom

• A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Home
  • Freedom

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Success
  • Freedom

• It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• And freedom is what America means to the world.

  

  Audie Murphy
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Important
  • Help
  • Freedom

• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Imagination

• I hope I inspire children to make films.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Children
  • Hope

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Life
  • Science
  • Earth

• But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Wish
  • Mood

• Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Forgotten