Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
