Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Date of birth: 1806-05-20
Date of death: 1873-05-08
Quotes number: 49
Nationality: English
Profession: Philosopher
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Art is the daughter of freedom.