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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"Freedom purchased by the suffering of others is slavery to one's own conscience."
Jonathan Edwards
"The greatest freedom is found in surrendering our stubborn will."
Charles Wesley
"Freedom without responsibility is merely license to harm."
Charles Wesley
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"Fear of others is the beginning of bondage; faith is the beginning of freedom."
George Fox
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"Materialism is a prison; detachment is a pathway to freedom."
George Fox
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"The path of righteousness is narrow, but those who walk it discover freedom."
George Fox
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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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"The truly free person is he who is free from the need to be liked."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The world is my parish."
John Wesley
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"Public diversions are not in themselves sinful, unless when they are the instruments of sin."
John Wesley
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"We are not only thinkers but also agents."
William James
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"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone."
William James
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"When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice that will determine your future."
William James
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"The practice of virtue is the exercise of freedom."
Jacob Böhme
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"The mind creates the prison; the spirit creates the key."
Jacob Böhme
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"To forgive is to unlock the chains that bind us."
Jacob Böhme
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"Freedom is the ability to act according to one's deepest understanding of truth."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The future is not predetermined but shaped by the choices we make today."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"The faithful find freedom not in the absence of trials, but in steadfast trust."
Charles Wesley
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"Freedom is not the absence of necessity, but the understanding of it."
Spinoza
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"To be free is nothing else than to persevere in one's being."
Spinoza
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"He is free who is led solely by reason."
Spinoza
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"The free man thinks of nothing less than of death."
Spinoza
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"A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death."
Spinoza
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"A free human being is one who is led by reason alone."
Spinoza
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"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."
Ibn Arabi
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"Freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."
Ibn Arabi
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"Freedom is the very essence of life."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The state of innocence is the state of wisdom and love in its freedom."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Freedom exists only in doing what is true and good."
Emanuel Swedenborg