Voltaire Quotes About Liberty
-
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
→ -
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
→ -
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
→ -
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
→ -
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.
→ -
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
→ -
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
→ -
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
→ -
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
→ -
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
→
Related Authors
-
Thomas Hobbes Philosopher -
Stendhal Writer -
Adam Smith Philosopher -
David Hume Philosopher -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
Moliere Playwright -
Immanuel Kant Philosopher -
Baron de Montesquieu Author -
Michel de Montaigne Writer -
Denis Diderot Philosopher -
Emile Zola Writer -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Rene Descartes Philosopher -
Frederick The Great Military Commander -
John Locke Philosopher -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher -
Isaac Newton Physicist -
Evelyn Beatrice Hall Writer -
Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician -
Emilie du Chatelet Mathematician