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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus






Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus






Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler






What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx






Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi






Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Wilhelm von Humboldt






Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud






No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville






Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn / 






Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus






No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt






Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer






Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus






If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger / 






We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper






Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Henri Bergson






Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus






Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes






In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam Chomsky






Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo






In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky






Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville






Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus






Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert






Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre






I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery






Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller






A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus










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