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 the burden of choosing who we become."
Priest, Graham
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"We are trapped not by reality, but by our inability to imagine alternatives."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"The conditional preserves our freedom to think otherwise."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Reality is just one possible world among infinite others."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"We are never truly trapped as long as we can ask 'what if?'"
Edgington, Dorothy
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"The subjunctive preserves human dignity by preserving human choice."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"We are never prisoners of what is; the subjunctive always offers an escape route."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Nolan, Daniel
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"To think clearly is to live more freely."
Beall, Jc
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"False dichotomies imprison our thinking; logic can free us."
Beall, Jc
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"Logical thinking is a form of freedom from error."
Beall, Jc
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"A mind trained in logic is a mind liberated."
Beall, Jc
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"We are not prisoners of our beliefs; we are their architects."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The freedom to think is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Freedom begins when we release what others think of us."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Freedom exists not in the absence of constraints, but in understanding them."
Mares, Edwin
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"Freedom is the right to be different."
Mares, Edwin
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"The paradox of freedom is that we are most free when we choose our constraints."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing who you will become."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Freedom is the weight of infinite choices."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"We are all prisoners of our conceptual frameworks until we transcend them."
Priest, Graham
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"The unexamined assumption is the prison of the unaware."
Priest, Graham
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the right to choose them."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Freedom demands eternal vigilance."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely another form of slavery."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Freedom requires constant vigilance and active participation."
Nolan, Daniel
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"The power of abstract thought liberates us from immediate perception."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Intellectual freedom begins with questioning what seems self-evident."
Balaguer, Mark