Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

"Hunger with dignity is preferable to bread eaten in slavery."
Frantz Fanon
"The thing which has been colonized is no longer to be colonized."
Frantz Fanon
"The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence."
Frantz Fanon
"True freedom consists of being the master of one's own actions."
Frantz Fanon
"Man is free to the extent that he is recognized as such by another."
Frantz Fanon
E
"One should as a rule respect public privacy. On the other hand, the major poets are always at the center of the public drama of their times."
Edward Said
E
"Being 'out of place' is the intellectual's natural condition."
Edward Said
E
"The intellectual must maintain critical distance from all institutions of power."
Edward Said
E
"Freedom is not simply absence of constraint but the capacity for self-determination."
Edward Said
F
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Félix Guattari
F
"Escape is not evasion; it is a positive affirmation of difference."
Félix Guattari
F
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to create new ones."
Félix Guattari
F
"The smooth space resists the striated space of domination."
Félix Guattari
F
"Singularity is the resistance to globalization."
Félix Guattari
F
"Deterritorialization is the first step toward freedom."
Félix Guattari
G
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Gilles Deleuze
G
"The question of freedom is directly tied to becoming."
Gilles Deleuze
G
"Freedom is the right to become who you choose."
Gilles Deleuze
S
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Slavoj Žižek
S
"We are more free when we acknowledge our constraints."
Slavoj Žižek
G
"We live in an age where everything is allowed, and yet nothing is truly permitted."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"We are all bare life until we choose to become something more."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"In the space between law and chaos lies the possibility of freedom."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"To be free is to be uncertain about one's own nature."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"We are not born free; we must continually choose to become free."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the choice of one's own."
Giorgio Agamben
E
"Authority is not simply imposed but negotiated"
Edward Said
E
"Secular criticism opens space for genuine pluralism"
Edward Said
E
"We must resist the tyranny of the single narrative"
Edward Said
E
"Imagination is where liberation begins"
Edward Said