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