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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"True freedom comes through alignment with the deepest currents of evolution"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"Freedom is the capacity to develop oneself according to one's own nature."
Rudolf Steiner
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"Only those thoughts are truly free which have no selfish motive."
Rudolf Steiner
"Freedom without responsibility is merely license to destroy"
Charles Wesley
"Freedom is both a gift and a responsibility to use wisely"
Charles Wesley
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I would warn every American never to let these sacred fires go out."
John Wesley
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"Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty indeed."
John Wesley
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"Christ is the free man's portion and inheritance."
George Fox
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"Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free."
George Fox
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"Those who truly repent experience a genuine freedom from the bondage of sin."
Jonathan Edwards
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"True freedom is found in service to God and obedience to His righteous law."
Jonathan Edwards
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"Freedom is the responsibility to choose authentically, knowing we shape reality with our choices."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"True freedom is found only in surrendering to divine will."
Jacob Böhme
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"The human individual definitely cherishes the belief that he is free."
William James
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"The freedom to fail is essential to the freedom to succeed."
William James
"True freedom is found not in absence of constraints, but in serving what we love."
Charles Wesley
"Freedom without responsibility becomes license."
Charles Wesley
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"Prison cannot contain the spirit of a free man."
George Fox
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"No man can be truly free until his conscience is free."
George Fox
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"Truth shall set thee free from all bondage."
George Fox
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"You are not yet free; you are still too much a prisoner of your passions."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"There is no duty to live according to the morality of your ancestors."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Freedom consists in having the right to do what we ought to do."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Freedom is the highest spiritual attainment."
Jacob Böhme
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"To forgive is to release yourself from the past."
Jacob Böhme
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"We are most free when we are most willingly bound to what is good."
Jonathan Edwards