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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"Liberty and freedom are the rights of every person."
Hypatia
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"The mind is both the prison and the key to freedom."
Hypatia
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"We must free ourselves from the slavery of the senses."
Porphyry
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"The greatest freedom is freedom from desire."
Porphyry
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"True freedom is found in submission to universal law."
Porphyry
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"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility."
Strabo
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"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but its full embrace."
Petronius
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"Freedom is not free."
Petronius
"True freedom lies not in the absence of chains, but in the mastery of one's own desires."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"When all are bound by chains, none feel the weight of them."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The truly free man is he who can refuse a king."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Reserve the right to think, even to think wrongly rather than not to think at all."
Hypatia
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"To accept tyranny is to surrender the best part of one's humanity."
Hypatia
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"To be truly free, one must first free oneself from the chains of superstition."
Hypatia
H
"To surrender your mind to another is to commit a kind of suicide."
Hypatia
H
"Intellectual independence is the first step toward personal liberation."
Hypatia
H
"To surrender to dogma is to renounce the very faculty that makes us human."
Hypatia
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"The greatest chains are those we forge in our own minds through false beliefs."
Porphyry
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"The body is a prison only for those who have forgotten their divine nature."
Porphyry
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"Those who master their appetites master the first condition of freedom."
Porphyry
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"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Strabo
S
"Knowledge makes us citizens of the world rather than prisoners of place."
Strabo
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."
Petronius
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"Freedom is not something given; it's something earned."
Apuleius
"To live authentically is to live in constant rebellion against convention."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The greatest freedom is freedom from the need to be right."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"A slave must obey, even when the commands are difficult."
Juvenal
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"The tyrant may rule the body, but not the mind."
Juvenal
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"True freedom comes from within."
Juvenal