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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"We are not fighting against desire; we are fighting against the apparatus that uses desire."Foucault, Michel
"Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power."Foucault, Michel
"To be free is to know what you are doing."Foucault, Michel
"Silence is complicity with the mechanisms of control."Foucault, Michel
"The question is: what are we willing to do to become free?"Foucault, Michel
"What we must do is unmask the operations of power in the very places we thought were free."Foucault, Michel
"We must ask not what freedom is, but how freedom becomes possible within structures of constraint."Foucault, Michel
"The only way to escape the system is to think differently about it."Deleuze, Gilles
"Freedom lies in the creation of new possibilities, not escape from constraints."Deleuze, Gilles
"Freedom requires the courage to think beyond established categories."Deleuze, Gilles
"The body is not a prison but the very site of freedom."Deleuze, Gilles
"Freedom is the burden of responsibility that cannot be evaded."Derrida, Jacques
"Freedom is always freedom for others, or it is not freedom."Derrida, Jacques
"Freedom is not given to us; we are condemned to be free."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"We are condemned to make meaning; it is not given to us."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Embodiment is not a limitation but the condition of freedom."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Freedom is not an essence but a constant task."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Culture is the space in which freedom is exercised."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Our freedom is always situated within a context that both constrains and enables it."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Tradition and freedom are not opposites; freedom is always exercised within and against a tradition."Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Freedom is the foundation of all values."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"We are as free as we think we are."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"To claim one has no choice is itself a choice."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"To be free is to be burdened with responsibility."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Man's freedom is his curse and his glory."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the power to transcend them."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Freedom without virtue is mere license and leads to chaos."MacIntyre, Alasdair
"Freedom is not a given; it is something that must be practiced and defended."Foucault, Michel