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 will to be responsible for ourselves."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"We cease to think when we refuse to do so under constraint."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."Kierkegaard, Søren
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being imprisoned, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Kierkegaard, Søren
"How absurd men are! They never use the freedoms they have but demand those they don't have."Kierkegaard, Søren
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."Kierkegaard, Søren
"Freedom is the discovery that nobody has a right to make you submit to anything."Kierkegaard, Søren
"The human soul is what makes us free; what makes us great."Kierkegaard, Søren
"No one is more enslaved than the one who believes himself to be free without foundation."Kierkegaard, Søren
"Secrecy is the mother of tyranny."Bentham, Jeremy
"Transparency is the best disinfectant for government."Bentham, Jeremy
"Rights are not natural; they are created by government for the benefit of society."Bentham, Jeremy
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."Marx, Karl
"Freedom is a product of the material conditions of society."Marx, Karl
"The proletariat has nothing to lose but their chains."Marx, Karl
"Emancipation requires more than mere political change."Marx, Karl
"The basis of morality is freedom."Kant, Immanuel
"Freedom is not given to us by nature; we must conquer it ourselves."Kant, Immanuel
"Freedom and necessity are compatible."Kant, Immanuel
"The worst despotism is the despotism of custom."Kant, Immanuel
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The state is the realization of freedom, the absolute end-purpose of the world."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The content of the world-spirit's self-realization is freedom."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"True freedom consists in independence from the authority of external physical causes"Berkeley, George
"True politeness is perfect ease and freedom"Berkeley, George
"The worth of a human being is in their ability to think independently and act upon their own convictions."Mill, John Stuart
"To be truly free, one must understand the nature of the chains that bind others."Mill, John Stuart
"In matters of conscience, the individual must be sovereign over society."Mill, John Stuart
"The freedom to fail is as essential as the freedom to succeed."Mill, John Stuart
