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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"Nature operates without rules or laws imposed from without."
Leucippus
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"True freedom is liberation from the tyranny of desire."
Pindar
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"Freedom begins in the mind before it reaches the world"
Sappho
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"The human spirit, like air, cannot be confined or controlled."
Anaximenes
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"Those who refuse to question their assumptions are imprisoned by them."
Anaximenes
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"The tyrant fears the truthful observer more than he fears the soldier at his gate."
Herodotus
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"The greatest freedom is found in acceptance of what cannot be changed."
Xenophanes
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"The pursuit of understanding is the pursuit of freedom."
Anaxagoras
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"In understanding we find freedom; in ignorance we find slavery."
Anaxagoras
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"Freedom is the right of all beings."
Anaximander
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"Under the rule of a violent and unscrupulous tyrant, the halter is preferable to the rope."
Aristophanes
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"The good man is free even if he is a slave."
Aristophanes
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"I am not ashamed of my desire; shame is the invention of those afraid of beauty."
Sappho
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"The pursuit of understanding is the path to freedom."
Anaxagoras
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"The greatest freedom is freedom from the tyranny of false belief."
Anaxagoras
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"The mind is the only thing truly free in the universe."
Anaxagoras
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"True freedom comes from understanding the laws that govern nature."
Anaximander
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"Understanding atomic theory liberates the mind from superstition and fear."
Leucippus
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"The determinism of atomic motion does not negate the reality of change."
Leucippus
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"To understand necessity is to understand atoms; to understand atoms is to be free."
Leucippus
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"In atomic theory lies the path to liberation from ignorance and superstition."
Leucippus
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"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
Euripides
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"Men are slaves when it is a shame to them to be free."
Euripides
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
Euripides
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"The pursuit of freedom is hollow if we remain enslaved to our passions."
Xenophanes
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"The greatest glory of a freely born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."
Sophocles
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"No one is truly free who is a slave to their passions."
Sophocles
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"The mind must be free to pursue truth wherever it leads."
Anaxagoras
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"Laughter is the sign of a free man; the tyrant can never understand why people laugh."
Aristophanes
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"True freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to choose one's own constraints."
Aristophanes