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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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Gerolamo Cardano
"The essence of freedom is the proper exercise of the will."Francis Bacon
"Do not envy the powerful; they are slaves to their power."Baltasar Gracián
"The greatest power is the power to choose."Baltasar Gracián
"Freedom is the highest good."Francesco Petrarch
"Freedom is the breath of the soul."Francesco Petrarch
"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."Juan Luis Vives
"The true measure of freedom is how we choose to use it."Matteo Ricci
"The greatest freedom is freedom from the tyranny of our own desires."Matteo Ricci
"To live authentically is to live contrary to the false expectations others place upon us."Christine de Pizan
"The woman who questions is the woman who begins to be free."Christine de Pizan
"A woman's voice, once raised, cannot be silenced but only ignored at great cost."Christine de Pizan
"To teach a person to think is to free them from dependence forever."Nicola Fontana Tartaglia
"The human spirit knows no boundaries save those imposed by imagination."Nicola Fontana Tartaglia
"In discipline resides the freedom to achieve one's greatest dreams."Nicola Fontana Tartaglia
"The freedom to think is the foundation of all other freedoms."Baltasar Gracián
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."Baltasar Gracián
"The astrologer who believes fate cannot be influenced by human will has surrendered his own agency."Gerolamo Cardano
"A life lived in the shadow of others' expectations is a life never truly lived at all."Gerolamo Cardano
"Resistance to tyranny is service to God."Francis Bacon
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all progress."Niccolò Copernicus
"Freedom is the birthright of every thinking being."Niccolò Copernicus
"I have unlocked the prison of ignorance with the key of the printing press."Johannes Gutenberg
"The printed word is democracy made visible."Johannes Gutenberg
"I believe that knowledge should flow as freely as water from a fountain."Johannes Gutenberg
"The printed word is freedom made manifest in ink and paper."Johannes Gutenberg
"The printed word is democracy's strongest fortress."Johannes Gutenberg
"Freedom is the foundation of greatness."Raphael Sanzio
"Freedom is worth any sacrifice."Raphael Sanzio
"Freedom is the greatest good."Giordano Bruno