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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"Intellectual freedom is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing who you become."
Mares, Edwin
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"Freedom is not doing what you want, but wanting what you do."
Mares, Edwin
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"We are enslaved by the arguments we fail to examine."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Language is both our prison and our key."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The examined argument is the foundation of freedom."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"We are trapped by the arguments we accept without question."
Shackel, Nicholas
S
"We are slaves to the premises we inherit."
Shackel, Nicholas
S
"To think clearly is to free yourself progressively."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Freedom is not given, it is taken."
Correia, Fabrice
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Freedom is the courage to think what others dare not."
Priest, Graham
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"The mind that cannot entertain a thought without accepting it is enslaved."
Priest, Graham
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"To be free is to be responsible for your freedom."
Priest, Graham
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing who to become."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Freedom without responsibility is chaos; responsibility without freedom is slavery."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We are trapped in our logical frameworks until we learn to question them."
Beall, Jc
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"We inherit our logical intuitions; we must choose whether to examine them."
Beall, Jc
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"Freedom is not the right to do whatever we want, but the responsibility to choose wisely."
Shackel, Nicholas
S
"Freedom requires constant vigilance against those who would diminish it."
Shackel, Nicholas
S
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are taken into."
Smith, Barry
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"The strongest chains are the ones we forge for ourselves."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Freedom is not the absence of limits, but the choice of which ones to accept."
Rosen, Gideon
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Chomsky, Noam
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"If you're not willing to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Democracy is served by diversity of thought."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Real freedom requires economic freedom."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The struggle for freedom is never finished."
Chomsky, Noam
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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."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an infinite ceiling and no walls, as long as he does not know he can leave."
Wittgenstein, Richard