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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"What others call vice, I call independence; what they call virtue, I call obedience."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Those who control your beliefs control your actions; think freely or remain enslaved."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely license."
Jean d'Alembert
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"The greatest freedom is the freedom to think."
Jean d'Alembert
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"Free thought is the foundation of free society."
Jean d'Alembert
"Freedom of thought requires freedom from the illusions of false sensation."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"We are free only to the extent that we understand the nature of our own sensations."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"I believe that freedom is the greatest of all human rights."
Émilie du Châtelet
"The world needs more people who are willing to think for themselves."
Émilie du Châtelet
"I believe that love without freedom is merely imprisonment."
Émilie du Châtelet
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"Freedom without discipline leads to destruction."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Freedom requires eternal vigilance."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"The free man is he who is not in irons."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Man's natural state is to be free."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"True freedom is the freedom to think."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Catherine de Medici
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Catherine de Medici
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"I am the master of my own destiny."
Isabella d'Este
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"To be educated is to be free."
Isabella d'Este
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"I am a woman of the Renaissance, unbound by tradition."
Isabella d'Este
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"I am a woman who has chosen her own path."
Isabella d'Este
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"Freedom is the right to doubt, to think, to dissent."
Jean d'Alembert
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"Freedom is the gift of nature."
Marsilio Ficino
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"Freedom is the natural state of the soul."
Marsilio Ficino
"Freedom of thought is the birthright of every rational being."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"The greatest freedom is freedom from ignorance and confusion."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"To question authority requires courage; to think for oneself requires discipline."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"The human spirit thrives when freed from the chains of unexamined belief."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"Freedom is the natural state of the human mind."
Poliziano Angelo