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