Freedom Quotes

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"Emancipation is achieved through enlightenment"
Jürgen Habermas
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"Freedom is realized through participation in discourse"
Jürgen Habermas
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"Emancipation requires freedom to speak and be heard"
Jürgen Habermas
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"Freedom is the freedom to obey the laws we create."
Slavoj Žižek
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"We are most free when we accept our total determination."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Subjectivity must be produced before it can be liberated."
Félix Guattari
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"The body without organs refuses stratification."
Félix Guattari
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"The smooth space resists the striated."
Félix Guattari
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"Signification traps us; desire liberates us."
Félix Guattari
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"The smooth triumphs over the striated."
Félix Guattari
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"The schizophrenic is the only free person."
Félix Guattari
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"The line of flight is the path to freedom."
Félix Guattari
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"Consciousness is a trap we must escape."
Félix Guattari
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"Freedom is not a state but a practice."
Félix Guattari
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"The more human beings are manipulated in their most intimate impulses, the more serious is the deterioration."
Max Horkheimer
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"Conformism is not just a problem, it is the problem."
Max Horkheimer
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"Domination is the enemy of all thinking."
Max Horkheimer
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"Freedom requires the material conditions for its realization."
Max Horkheimer
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"The administered world leaves no space for spontaneity."
Max Horkheimer
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"Autonomy is the goal of enlightenment."
Max Horkheimer
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"Society cannot tolerate the truly free individual."
Max Horkheimer
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"We are all potentially homines sacri in the eyes of sovereign power."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Liberty is meaningless without the risk of its loss."
Giorgio Agamben
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"To be free is to be bound by the responsibility to the other."
Jacques Derrida
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is a form of rebellion."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Smooth space is not opposed to striated space but emerges within and against it."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Freedom is not escape but the creation of new possibilities within given constraints."
Gilles Deleuze
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"The rhizome breaks all codes and opens onto the smooth space of nomadic distribution."
Gilles Deleuze
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"To be free is not to transcend constraints but to transform them into creative material."
Gilles Deleuze
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"A genuine public sphere requires freedom from domination and coercion."
Jürgen Habermas