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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"The liberation of humanity requires the liberation of woman."
Michel Bakunin
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"Authority is unjust in itself and must be combated everywhere."
Michel Bakunin
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"To change society fundamentally, we must change the ideas that hold people in bondage."
Antonio Gramsci
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"The prison of the past can only be escaped through understanding how it was constructed."
Antonio Gramsci
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"The people do not need saviors; they need the tools and understanding to liberate themselves."
Antonio Gramsci
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"The most powerful weapon against government oppression has always been the written word."
Emma Goldman
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"Those who give up their freedom for security deserve neither."
Emma Goldman
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free yourself."
Emma Goldman
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"I believe that a woman should have the right to control her own body."
Emma Goldman
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"Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither."
Emma Goldman
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"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."
Emma Goldman
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"No government has ever granted freedom; freedom has always been seized."
Emma Goldman
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"The ideal of equality can never be achieved through government coercion."
Emma Goldman
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"Economic freedom is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Emma Goldman
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"The abolition of government is not the goal; the goal is the free development of humanity."
Emma Goldman
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"The greatest obstacle to freedom is the human tendency toward passivity."
Emma Goldman
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"The ties that bind us to convention are chains of our own making."
Emma Goldman
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"A truly free society would be unimaginable to those accustomed to oppression."
Emma Goldman
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"To be free is to accept the terrible responsibility of self-determination."
Emma Goldman
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"Freedom is not given; it is taken and continuously defended."
Emma Goldman
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"Those who fear freedom are those who profit from others' bondage."
Emma Goldman
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"The soul is the prison of the body."
Michel Foucault
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"Freedom is not something that is given to us but something we must conquer."
Michel Foucault
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"Thought is freedom in relation to what one does."
Michel Foucault
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"We think we are free when in reality we are always constrained."
Michel Foucault
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"Freedom comes from understanding what imprisons us."
Michel Foucault
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"We must free ourselves from the sacralisation of history."
Michel Foucault
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"We must learn to see that we are not free."
Michel Foucault
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"The practice of freedom is the practice of thinking differently."
Michel Foucault
"Freedom is so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
Friedrich Engels