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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"The tyrant's power crumbles when the people discover their own strength."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"True freedom comes from understanding necessity."
Jean d'Alembert
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"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Jean d'Alembert
"Freedom of thought is the first condition of intellectual development."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"True knowledge frees us from the chains of ignorance and superstition."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"We are slaves only to those ideas we have never truly examined."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"The power of education lies not in controlling minds but in liberating them."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Freedom and understanding grow together, each nourishing the other."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Beliefs unexamined are merely inherited chains."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"The chains that bind us most securely are those we cannot see—the chains of false beliefs."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"To be free, one must first be willing to think freely."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"A man who fears his own thoughts is twice enslaved."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"The mind that has been freed cannot be re-enslaved except by its own consent."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"The chains of superstition are stronger because we cannot see them."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"All the chains that bind us are forged by ignorance and can be broken by knowledge."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"The freedom to think is the most precious freedom any person can possess."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"A mind that knows only one answer is a mind in chains."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
J
"A life of intellectual engagement is a life of freedom."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"Freedom consists in doing what one desires."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the wisdom to choose them."
Jean d'Alembert
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to think for oneself."
Moses Mendelssohn
"We are products of our age, but not prisoners of it."
Moses Mendelssohn
"We are most free when we act according to reason."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"True liberty consists in the power to do what we ought to do, not what we are capable of doing."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Freedom in thought is as essential to the scientist as air is to the lungs."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the right to choose them."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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"Freedom is the ultimate human right."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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"The priests have always been the enemies of freedom; they thrive on ignorance and superstition."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Man creates his own chains through acceptance of false authority."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"The most effective chains are those people forge for themselves through false belief."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach