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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M
"Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend."
Mao Zedong
M
"Despotism is death; democracy is life."
Mao Zedong
B
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything else."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Benito Mussolini
B
"It is forbidden to forbid."
Benito Mussolini
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
Ho Chi Minh
"Oppression breeds resistance; resistance breeds freedom."
Ho Chi Minh
"We seek not to dominate others, but to liberate ourselves."
Ho Chi Minh
"We believe that all people have the right to determine their own destiny."
Ho Chi Minh
"We do not seek wealth or power, but only the right to live free."
Ho Chi Minh
"The natural desire of humanity for freedom cannot be permanently suppressed."
Ho Chi Minh
V
"The suppression of individual liberty is often justified by appeals to collective good."
Vladimir Lenin
"National liberation movements must be based on the armed struggle of the people."
Che Guevara
"An individual must have the capacity to be independent in thought and action."
Che Guevara
"Liberation is not a gift; it is something that must be seized."
Che Guevara
"Freedom cannot be achieved through the ballot box alone."
Che Guevara
"The oppressed have the right and duty to overthrow their oppressors."
Che Guevara
"True freedom comes not from escaping chains but from breaking them for others."
Che Guevara
B
"Freedom is earned through sacrifice, never given freely."
Benito Mussolini
J
"In the Soviet Union, it is forbidden to forbid."
Joseph Stalin
V
"The people are not objects to be governed, but agents of their own destiny."
Vladimir Lenin
E
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being."
Eleanor Roosevelt
L
"Formal democracy without material equality is merely bourgeois deception."
Leon Trotsky
L
"The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains."
Leon Trotsky
L
"To accept the status quo is to participate in your own oppression."
Leon Trotsky
L
"The mind must be freed before the body can know true liberation."
Leon Trotsky
M
"The armed struggle is the only way to liberate the oppressed peoples."
Mao Zedong
M
"The people of China have stood up."
Mao Zedong
J
"Freedom is slavery to the state"
Joseph Stalin
J
"Freedom without order is chaos"
Joseph Stalin