Freedom Quotes

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

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"Human freedom is limited by our physical organization."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Religion opposes the honest study of human nature."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Understanding the body liberates us from superstition."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"We are free only to the extent we understand our constraints."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing well, not the license to choose anything."
Johann Tetens
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"History teaches that freedom is precious because it is easily lost."
Giovanni Vico
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Johann Goethe
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Goethe
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"He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm."
Johann Goethe
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"Freedom is the breath of life to all human beings."
Johann Herder
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"Freedom requires the responsibility of conscience."
Johann Herder
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"The tyranny of custom is a powerful thing, and we must be vigilant against it."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Liberty is the birthright of all rational beings."
Catharine Macaulay
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"We must question the authority that demands our blind obedience."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Freedom without responsibility is mere license."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Freedom exists only with power."
Friedrich Schiller
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"He who loses his individuality has lost all."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the proper ordering of the soul."
George Berkeley
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"Freedom is the right to do what the laws permit."
Hugo Grotius
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"Freedom is the birthright of all."
Hugo Grotius
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"We are free only insofar as we act according to reason and necessity."
Christian Wolff
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"Freedom and necessity are not opposites but two sides of the same reality."
Christian Wolff
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"Freedom without responsibility leads to chaos"
Jean Bodin
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"Freedom demands eternal vigilance against tyranny"
Jean Bodin
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"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
Hugo Grotius
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"Freedom is not doing what you want, but wanting what you ought to do."
Hugo Grotius
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"Independence is the birthright of every person."
Hugo Grotius
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"No man can be compelled to think; but society shapes what we think about."
Johann Herder
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"To be truly free requires discipline and self-knowledge."
Johann Herder
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"True freedom consists not in the absence of restraint, but in the exercise of reason."
Catharine Macaulay