No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

[] no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were...

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

For no man is free who is a slave to his body.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Men who are not free always idealize their bondage.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

But there is no such thing as possessing a little freedom," Lee mused. "Once one enjoys any whatsoever, he will seek it all.

I have never believed that man’s freedom consists in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do, and this is the freedom I have always sought after and often achieved, the freedom by virtue of which I have most scandalized my contemporaries. For they, being active, busy, ambitious, detesting freedom in others and not desiring it for themselves, as long as they can sometimes have their way, or rather prevent others from having theirs, they force themselves all their lives to do what they do not want to do and are willing to endure any servitude in order to command

Man’s immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.