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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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
V
"I may disagree with you, but I will always respect your right to your opinion."
Voltaire
V
"The conscience is the sacred fire of liberty."
Voltaire
V
"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."
Voltaire
V
"Every man is born with the right to go to hell in his own way."
Voltaire
V
"I was never allowed to question the things that mattered."
Voltaire
A
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
A
"A free man has no need to wait for another to give him permission to live."
Albert Camus
A
"Freedom without responsibility is merely another form of slavery."
Albert Camus
J
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Radical freedom is terrifying because it removes all excuses."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"We cannot be authentic in a world that demands conformity."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"The moment we accept ideology, we abandon our humanity."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"To deny our freedom is the greatest self-deception."
Jean-Paul Sartre
M
"Political liberty is found when power is not arbitrary; it exists when laws are certain and known."
Montesquieu
M
"Freedom does not consist of doing what you wish, but of doing what you ought."
Montesquieu
M
"People should be free to think and believe as long as they harm not the state or others."
Montesquieu
M
"The feeling of liberty depends on the proportion of taxes to revenue."
Montesquieu
M
"In a democratic state, citizens must combine freedom with responsibility."
Montesquieu
D
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
D
"Despotism can only exist through darkness."
Denis Diderot
D
"The human spirit cannot be conquered when it remains free."
Denis Diderot
D
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Denis Diderot
S
"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman through the choices one makes in life."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"Freedom is not given, it is created through conscious action and commitment."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"We are our choices, nothing more and nothing less."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"One's relationship with one's own body is fundamental to one's freedom."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"The desire for approval can become the prison we construct for ourselves."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"We inherit neither our destiny nor our nature; we create both."
Simone de Beauvoir