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 without responsibility is merely another form of slavery."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing ourselves."
Eugenio Montale
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"The essence of freedom is the right to be wrong."
Miguel de Unamuno
"To live authentically is to resist the chains of convention."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Freedom of mind is more precious than freedom of body."
Francisco de Quevedo
"Freedom without responsibility is merely the license to destroy."
Luis de Góngora
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"Freedom is the breath of the spirit, without it, we merely exist."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Freedom's price is eternal vigilance and virtue."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Freedom is not given, it is earned"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Freedom requires responsibility"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing ourselves constantly"
Ungaretti
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"Freedom is the privilege of bearing your own chains"
Ungaretti
"Freedom is not the ability to do what you wish, but the wisdom to know what is worth doing."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"To be truly free is to accept the limits of one's own freedom."
Eugenio Montale
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"We are prisoners of our circumstances, yet within those constraints we are free."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"The freedom we seek is often the freedom from our own nature."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"The most exquisite prison is one constructed from our own desires."
Luis de Góngora
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains, but the presence of purpose."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Freedom is the only worthy goal of human life."
Elio Vittorini
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"Freedom requires responsibility."
Elio Vittorini
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"The greatest obstacle to freedom is the belief that we are free."
Eugenio Montale
"Freedom begins when we stop obeying the voices that are not our own."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"We are all prisoners of our own making."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of your freedom."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Sexuality is a fundamental expression of human freedom."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"We find freedom not in escaping our circumstances, but in accepting them."
Federigo Tozzi
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"We are not defined by our circumstances, but by what we do within them."
Federigo Tozzi
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"To live is to suffer, but to understand suffering is to be free."
Elsa Morante