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131 Powerful Quotes About Freedom With A Strong Message

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Publish Not your original work? Add source Freedom quotes express the importance of living freely and striving for one's goals, improving ourselves, our lives, and the world around us without oppression or fear. Quotes about freedom are not some empty, unrelatable phrases from people who lived hundreds of years ago and had no right to participate in the country's political life.

The definition of freedom covers much more than having the right to vote or roam around the streets freely. Although physical freedom should be self-evident and indisputable, in the 21st century, it's still not something everyone can boast about.

Humanity has come a long way. However, looking at recent events, it's evident that humankind still has a long way to go.

Quotes on freedom remind us what fundamental role freedom plays in our lives. Whether physical or psychological, liberty is essential for living a fulfilling, full-fledged life. Below, we've compiled a lengthy list of inspiring quotes from some of the brightest minds about freedom.

No matter how old or perhaps dated these living free quotes are, they still pack a punch and resonate with us today. Did any of these inspirational quotes hit home? Did you like any freedom quote in particular?

Let us know! This post may include affiliate links. #1 “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell Report 25points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Freedom also means not having to listen to what people tell you.

3 3points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln Report 21points POST RandomCitizen RandomCitizen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Well, no because all people have freedom as a right.

Even terrible people. 0 0points reply #3 “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud, 'Civilization and Its Discontents' Report 17points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And there you have "government providing things." 1 1point reply View More Replies...

View more comments #4 “There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.” ― Scott Lynch Report 16points POST #5 “Freedom is... the right to write the wrong words.” ― Patti Smith Report 16points POST RandomCitizen RandomCitizen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago So.... Nickelback equals freedom?

Ok cool. 0 0points reply #6 “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” - Kahlil Gibran Report 15points POST #7 “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.” ― Bob Marley Report 15points POST #8 “Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.” ― David Allan Coe Report 15points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And generally, people allow it to be taken away.

1 1point reply #9 “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” ― James Baldwin Report 14points POST Beth Beth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago People are not as free as they want to be . There are plenty of us that are denied the freedom of even eating if we don't have enough money.

Or denied the freedom and liberty to truly do and live as we wish. People are being controlled or oppressed in so many ways.

Those that run things have full control over the majority of us and there is nothing free about how this world/country operates now a days. 3 3points reply View More Replies...

View more comments #10 "Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used." ― Hunter S. Thompson Report 14points POST #11 “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ― Maximilien Robespierre Report 13points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And thus, the US education system. 3 3points reply View More Replies...

View more comments #12 "The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot." ― William Inge Report 13points POST Markus Weiler Markus Weiler Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago They instigate. 0 0points reply View more comments #13 “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela Report 12points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago This is the only one I've seen so far that makes sense.

1 1point reply #14 “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” ― Milton Friedman Report 12points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Remember, whomever makes the definitions has ALL the power.

2 2points reply View more comments #15 "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill Report 12points POST #16 “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” - Aung San Suu Report 11points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Fear of responsibility. 0 0points reply View more comments #17 “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Joe Klaas Report 11points POST #18 “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X Report 11points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago I guess that depends on your definition of peace. 0 0points reply View More Replies...

View more comments #19 “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them, they somehow fly out past you.

And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” – Stephen King Report 11points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago This kinda implies that there are some birds that are meant to be caged. Apparently, the ones with dull feathers and annoying songs. 2 2points reply View More Replies...

View more comments #20 “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” – Peter Marshall Report 11points POST #21 “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis Report 11points POST #22 “Freedom is control in your own life.” ― Willie Nelson Report 11points POST #23 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” - Charlotte Bronte Report 10points POST Tamra Tamra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago From "Jane Eyre", one of my favorite books.

0 0points reply #24 “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing.

To depend on nothing.” - Ayn Rand Report 10points POST #25 “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” ― Kahlil Gibran Report 10points POST K- THULU K- THULU Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Yessss...my autistic, socially anxious a*s agrees totally..... 1 1point reply #26 “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.” ― Paulo Coelho, 'Eleven Minutes' Report 10points POST #27 "Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.” ― David Sarnoff Report 10points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And it is now more than apparent that science has become enslaved to money.

0 0points reply #28 “Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.” - Epictetus Report 9points POST #29 “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” - Daniel J. Boorstin Report 9points POST #30 “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” - Albert Einstein Report 9points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Which is why most totalitarian societies steal tech.

1 1point reply #31 “War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, '1984' Report 9points POST K- THULU K- THULU Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Unfortunately, more relevant today than ever....... 2 2points reply #32 “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela Report 9points POST #33 “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky Report 9points POST RandomCitizen RandomCitizen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago We live in a time of mass deceit.

Where freedoms are being eroded by hysteria brought about by that deceit. Freedom of expression is now subject to the tolerance paradox.

0 0points reply #34 “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” ― Carrie Jones Report 9points POST #35 “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” ― Marie Lu, 'Legend' Report 9points POST Greta Kolding Greta Kolding Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom For trying to change the system from within. 1 1point reply View More Replies...

View more comments #36 “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau Report 9points POST MorgothBauglir MorgothBauglir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 2 months ago The enlightenment was a brilliant time. 0 0points reply #37 “Freedom cannot be bestowed. It must be achieved.” – Elbert Hubbard Report 9points POST #38 “No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly.

When we know this, we become free.” – Buddha Report 9points POST #39 “When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” – Charles Evans Hughes Report 9points POST #40 “To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.” ― Virginia Woolf Report 9points POST #41 “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” ― John Philpot Curran Report 9points POST Eat Dirt Crow Eat Dirt Crow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago If I'm always vigilant then I'm not free to do what I want. -1 -1point reply View More Replies...

View more comments #42 "Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it." ― Germaine Greer Report 9points POST #43 "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own." ― Margaret Atwood Report 9points POST #44 “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” - William Faulkner Report 8points POST #45 “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf Report 8points POST #46 “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom.

And in freedom, most people find sin.” ― John Green, 'The Fault in Our Stars' Report 8points POST MorgothBauglir MorgothBauglir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 2 months ago Not what John Locke thought. 0 0points reply View More Replies... View more comments #47 “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Report 8points POST #48 “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.

You are free.” ― Jim Morrison Report 8points POST #49 “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre Report 8points POST #50 “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom.

Don't ever count on having both at once.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Report 8points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago An exceptionally wise man. 0 0points reply #51 “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” – Pope John Paul II Report 8points POST #52 “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine Report 8points POST #53 “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus Report 8points POST #54 “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” – Moshe Dayan Report 8points POST #55 “Just living is not enough...

one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Report 8points POST #56 “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” - Albert Camus Report 8points POST #57 “Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.” ― Alan Moore, 'V for Vendetta' Report 8points POST #58 “I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.” ― DeRay Mckesson Report 8points POST #59 “May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” - Peter Marshall Report 7points POST #60 “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” - Herbert Hoover Report 7points POST #61 “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel Report 7points POST #62 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin Report 7points POST #63 “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” ― Toni Morrison, 'Beloved' Report 7points POST #64 “The truth will set you free.

But not until it is finished with you.” ― David Foster Wallace, 'Infinite Jest' Report 7points POST #65 “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Report 7points POST #66 “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre Report 7points POST #67 “The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” ― Jose Marti Report 7points POST See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #68 “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ― Aristotle Report 7points POST #69 “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh Report 7points POST #70 “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” ― Kurt Vonnegut Report 7points POST #71 “Tame birds sing of freedom.

Wild birds fly.” – John Lennon Report 7points POST #72 “Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing.

It is addictive, and with each drink, you want more.” – Maya Angelou Report 7points POST #73 “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan Report 7points POST #74 “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Report 7points POST #75 “For what avail the plow or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Report 7points POST #76 “No man is good enough to be another's master.” ― William Morris Report 7points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago NO ONE should be a "master." 0 0points reply #77 “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” ― John Stuart Mill Report 7points POST See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #78 “Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.” ― Bill Owens Report 7points POST #79 “Freedom rings where opinions clash.” ― Adlai Stevenson I Report 7points POST #80 "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." ― Audre Lorde Report 7points POST #81 "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!" ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Scarlet Letter' Report 7points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago My favorite line in "Gone With the Wind" is "you do not realize what a burden a 'good reputation' is." 0 0points reply #82 “The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” - John F.

Kennedy Report 7points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago He would be weeping today. He was a very good man.

His vision was betrayed by his administration. 0 0points reply #83 "I'd like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free." - Rosa Parks Report 7points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago One of my favorite people. 0 0points reply #84 “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.” ― Paulo Coelho, 'The Zahir' Report 7points POST #85 “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” ― Kahlil Gibran Report 7points POST #86 “Liberty without learning is always in peril and Learning without liberty is always in vain.” ― John F.

Kennedy Report 7points POST #87 “Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.” ― Wilhelm Reich Report 7points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And it is today, because the government is defining freedom and it has no basis in reality. 0 0points reply See Also on Bored Panda 30 Of The Most Hectic Homes As Shared On 'The Broke Agent' Instagram Account Bride Doesn't Include Wedding Dinner Price In Her Wedding Invites, Is Surprised To See Many Guests Canceling On Her After They Find Out #88 “Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.” ― G.K.

Chesterton, 'What's Wrong with the World' Report 7points POST #89 "The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom." ― Os Guinness Report 7points POST #90 "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself." ― Martin Luther King, Jr. Report 7points POST #91 “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi Report 6points POST #92 “From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Report 6points POST #93 “Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” - Louis D.

Brandeis Report 6points POST #94 “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” ― Ralph Ellison, 'Invisible Man' Report 6points POST #95 “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.” ― Judy Blume Report 6points POST #96 “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ― Mortimer J.

Adler Report 6points POST #97 “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' Report 6points POST See Also on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O.

Woman Takes DNA Test For Fun Only To Discover Her Long-Term Boyfriend Is Her Full Sibling #98 “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ― Rosa Luxemburg Report 6points POST #99 “There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.” ― Cassandra Clare, 'Lady Midnight' Report 6points POST #100 “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ― Jim Morrison Report 6points POST #101 “Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Report 6points POST #102 “The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides Report 6points POST #103 “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl Report 6points POST #104 “What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free, and own no superior?” – Walt Whitman Report 6points POST #105 This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll Report 6points POST #106 “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” ― Marie Rutkoski, 'The Winner's Curse' Report 6points POST #107 “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” ― Albert Einstein Report 6points POST See Also on Bored Panda "I Just Said Thank You And Left": Man’s Nice Gesture Is Praised After Pizza Hut Driver Got A $20 Tip On A $938 Order Woman Flabbergasted At Thrift Store's Prices, Calls Them Out By Sharing 14 Examples #108 “I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free.

Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― Ocean Vuong, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' Report 6points POST #109 “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek Report 6points POST #110 “Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” ― Friedrich Engels Report 6points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago And there we hear from someone who defines freedom as control. 1 1point reply #111 “Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.” ― Warren E. Burger Report 6points POST #112 “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Report 6points POST #113 “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.” ― Maya Angelou Report 6points POST #114 “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like.

That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.” ― Octavia E. Butler Report 6points POST #115 "Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity.

The one presupposes the other." ― Rollo May Report 6points POST #116 "There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security.

If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom." ― William Hurt Report 6points POST #117 "The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society." ― Henrik Ibsen Report 6points POST See Also on Bored Panda 50 Parents Having A Pretty Miserable Day Photoshop Troll Who Takes Photo Requests Too Literally Strikes Again, And The Result Is Hilarious (17 Pics) #118 "This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Report 6points POST #119 “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt Report 5points POST #120 “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” ― Jim Morrison Report 5points POST #121 “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Report 5points POST #122 “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace Report 5points POST #123 “There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia.

"Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.

Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.” ― Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale' Report 5points POST #124 “Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” – Coretta Scott King Report 5points POST #125 “There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes, the true, where he is free to do what he ought.” – Charles Kingsley Report 5points POST #126 “Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people.” – Barack Obama Report 5points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Think about what he said.

Because there is so much unsaid in this statement that one does not realize that one is agreeing to someone making a decision about who, what, where and when. 1 1point reply #127 “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.” ― Clarence Darrow Report 5points POST See Also on Bored Panda 50 People Who Are Having A Terrible Day At Work 30 Mistakes Made By Designers And Architects Who Didn’t Think Of The Person Who’d Be Using Their Designs #128 "Nothing speaks so strongly of freedom as the fact that the descendants of those who went through great agony — which, thank Heaven, has passed away — have now full opportunities and can help celebrate my fifty years’ work for liberty." ― Susan B.

Anthony Report 5points POST #129 “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 Report 5points POST lara lara Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Irony is strong in this one. 1 1point reply View more comments #130 “Freedom is sloppy.

But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.” ― Bill Willingham, 'Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland' Report 5points POST #131 “I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.” ― Noam Chomsky Report 4points POST Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News!

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POST MorgothBauglir MorgothBauglir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 2 months ago So many brilliant intellectuals on here. Friedman, Rousseau, J.S. Mill.

If only BP featured them more, instead of dogmatic Reddit posts or angry tweets. 1 1point reply Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Freedom is nothing more than the ability to make a choice, to have the resources available to understand the relevant factors involved before making a choice, and to have fortitude to be accountable for the outcome of that choice.

0 0points reply K- THULU K- THULU Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Unfortunately, when poverty's your master, you will never be free...... 0 0points reply POST MorgothBauglir MorgothBauglir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 2 months ago So many brilliant intellectuals on here. Friedman, Rousseau, J.S.

Mill. If only BP featured them more, instead of dogmatic Reddit posts or angry tweets. 1 1point reply Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago Freedom is nothing more than the ability to make a choice, to have the resources available to understand the relevant factors involved before making a choice, and to have fortitude to be accountable for the outcome of that choice.

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