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