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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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the wisdom to choose them."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Freedom is the terrible gift of choosing who we become."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Freedom exists in the space between intention and execution."
Pollock, John
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"I think the unconscious is the only place where you can be free."
Pollock, John
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"I refuse to comply with the expectations of those who do not understand."
Pollock, John
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"I reject the notion that art must have a single meaning."
Pollock, John
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"Teaching risk literacy is an act of empowerment and liberation."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Understanding risk is understanding freedom; without it, we are prisoners of fear."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints; it is the presence of choices."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Freedom is the right to be wrong."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Freedom is the right to become who you truly are."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Freedom requires responsibility."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Personal autonomy depends on capacities for reflection and self-governance that require cultivation."
Harman, Gilbert
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"The nature of freedom requires capacities that extend beyond the absence of external constraint."
Harman, Gilbert
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"The greatest prison is the one we build in our minds."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Freedom is our most valuable possession."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Freedom requires responsibility; without it, freedom becomes license."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The unexamined concept is the concept that controls us."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Freedom begins where fear ends."
Mares, Edwin
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"We must respect the intellectual autonomy of others even when we disagree with them."
Lehrer, Keith
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"We are often imprisoned by the limits of our concepts."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Thinking deeply is an act of freedom."
Priest, Graham
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"Freedom of thought is humanity's greatest gift."
Priest, Graham
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"The mind, when disciplined, becomes the greatest instrument of freedom."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint; it is choosing your constraints consciously."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints; it is the power to choose them."
Mares, Edwin
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"Freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."
Mares, Edwin
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains, but the presence of choice."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"We are trapped in systems of our own making, yet freedom lies within them."
Priest, Graham