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 right to do what you ought."Wittgenstein, Richard
"Logic is freedom from the tyranny of confusion."Montague, Richard
"To question deeply is to think freely."Montague, Richard
"To question authority is to think for oneself."Montague, Richard
"Freedom is the burden of choosing who we become."Smith, Barry
"Freedom is the terrifying gift of choosing yourself."Smith, Barry
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."Chomsky, Noam
"The more free you are, the more responsible you become for your own existence."Chomsky, Noam
"Freedom of thought requires freedom from propaganda."Chomsky, Noam
"True freedom is rare and requires constant vigilance."Chomsky, Noam
"Freedom of thought is freedom from emotional manipulation."Chomsky, Noam
"Authenticity requires resistance to socialization."Chomsky, Noam
"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our perspective."Rosen, Gideon
"The freedom you're talking about is freedom from something. I'm talking about freedom to do something."Perry, John
"The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."Perry, John
"We are prisoners of our own linguistic frameworks, yet language is our only key to freedom."Montague, Richard
"Language is not a prison but an infinite resource for human expression."Montague, Richard
"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
"Freedom requires responsibility, or it becomes tyranny wearing a mask."Smith, Barry
"Freedom without conscience is anarchy; conscience without freedom is slavery."Smith, Barry
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."Kaplan, David
"Let freedom ring."Kaplan, David
"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the ability to choose your constraints."Perry, John
"Freedom requires responsibility; liberty demands conscience."Perry, John
"Freedom without access to information is merely an illusion."Chomsky, Noam
"Freedom of thought is impossible without freedom from economic desperation."Chomsky, Noam
"We are all prisoners of our linguistic frameworks, yet they are our only keys to freedom."Katz, Jerrold
"The mind that cannot speak is a mind imprisoned."Katz, Jerrold
"The human capacity for language is the human capacity for freedom."Katz, Jerrold
"Barry Smith once noted that freedom without responsibility is merely the illusion of liberty."Smith, Barry