Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"The pursuit of freedom requires the discipline of responsibility."
Anna Schwartz
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"Freedom and responsibility are inseparable."
Paul Samuelson
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"An inequality of capacities does not justify an inequality of freedom."
Gunnar Myrdal
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."
Gunnar Myrdal
G
"Freedom demands eternal vigilance."
Gunnar Myrdal
S
"We are slaves to statistics only if we forget to question them."
Simon Kuznets
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"In the end, the true measure of economic success is the freedom and opportunity it provides."
Simon Kuznets
S
"Economic freedom is impossible without political and social freedom; the three are inseparable."
Simon Kuznets
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"Data is democracy; ignorance is tyranny dressed in statistical clothes."
Wassily Leontief
"Freedom without responsibility is license, not liberty."
Kenneth Arrow
"Every choice eliminates other possibilities - this is freedom's cost."
Kenneth Arrow
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"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny of another kind."
Kenneth Boulding
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"Freedom and prosperity are intertwined in ways that tyranny cannot break."
Paul Samuelson
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"Democracy requires constant vigilance against the creeping normalcy of inequality."
Gunnar Myrdal
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"The freedom to choose is meaningless without real options."
Gunnar Myrdal
G
"Real freedom requires not just absence of constraint but presence of opportunity."
Gunnar Myrdal
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"Freedom without solidarity is merely the freedom to exploit."
Gunnar Myrdal
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"True democracy requires economic democracy, not just political democracy."
Gunnar Myrdal
G
"Freedom and responsibility are inseparable; we cannot have one without the other."
Gunnar Myrdal
S
"The economy is a human creation, shaped by human choices."
Simon Kuznets
S
"The future is not predetermined by statistics; it is created by choices."
Simon Kuznets
S
"Economic development is the liberation of human potential."
Simon Kuznets
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"Independence of mind is difficult to maintain when you are working within a profession or institution."
Joan Robinson
J
"Freedom of thought requires freedom from economic desperation."
Joan Robinson
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"Freedom is something that every human being desperately wants to feel."
Kenneth Boulding
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"The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the kind of world he and his families want."
Paul Samuelson
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"Freedom is a rare thing, and most people don't appreciate it when they have it."
Milton Friedman
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"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
Milton Friedman
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"The most important thing to understand is that the key to economic growth is freedom."
Milton Friedman
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"The great threat to freedom is the concentration of power."
Milton Friedman