But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
A universal licence to be good.

Hartley Coleridge

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Topic

Nature of freedom Freedom

Author

Hartley Coleridge

Source

Liberty

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1833 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Coleridge, Hartley. Liberty. c. 1833, I. 13.

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Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

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William Lloyd Garrison
Source
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Medium
Newspaper
Language
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Time
1837 1830s 19th century
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Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. Motto of The Liberator. 1831.

Another quote about Freedom

I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Topic
Downsides of freedom Freedom

Author

Jean-Paul Sartre
Source
Being and Nothingness
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

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Summer The ephemeral Seasons

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 18 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile Question
Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.