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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"Men are born into freedom but everywhere are in chains."
Montesquieu
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"The separation of powers is the guardian of liberty."
Montesquieu
M
"The greatest enemy of liberty is the concentration of power."
Montesquieu
M
"A free people will always demand transparent government."
Montesquieu
M
"The people naturally desire freedom when they understand its value."
Montesquieu
M
"True liberty is the freedom to follow just laws."
Montesquieu
M
"Liberty is precious; it must be guarded vigilantly."
Montesquieu
M
"A free society balances order with liberty."
Montesquieu
M
"The wealth of a nation is measured by the freedom of its people."
Montesquieu
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
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"Freedom is the first of all goods."
Denis Diderot
D
"I pledge allegiance to nothing and no one."
Denis Diderot
D
"Freedom is not a gift but a responsibility."
Denis Diderot
J
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is an act of rebellion."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Anguish is the feeling of freedom itself."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Perfect freedom is impossible; we exist in a world of constraints."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"The only real liberation is self-actualization."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"We choose not because we are free, but we are free because we choose."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Facticity and freedom are always intertwined."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Regret is the acknowledgment of our freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against bad faith."
Jean-Paul Sartre
S
"It is forbidden to forbid."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"Freedom is not something that one is born with, but something that must be achieved."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"Liberty is the condition for authentic living."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"There is only one way to be free: to give oneself to a cause greater than oneself."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"Human freedom presupposes that man is capable of wanting what he wants."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"The individual must take responsibility for her own liberation."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"To be free is to acknowledge our radical responsibility to others."
Simone de Beauvoir