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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"The ultimate freedom is the freedom to choose our response."
Cesare Pavese
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"Small acts of resistance matter profoundly."
Primo Levi
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"Freedom is a responsibility, not just a right."
Primo Levi
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"Freedom is only meaningful when we use it for something beyond ourselves."
Federigo Tozzi
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"True freedom is internal; no law can grant it or remove it."
Federigo Tozzi
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence becomes a form of rebellion."
Italo Svevo
"Freedom is not given; it is achieved through awareness."
Italo Svevo
"Freedom is the right to be yourself."
Italo Svevo
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"Freedom is not a state but a constant struggle."
Elsa Morante
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"The freedom to speak is nothing without the wisdom to listen."
Cesare Pavese
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the conscious choice of one's constraints."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"True freedom lies not in the absence of constraints, but in the choice of which constraints to accept."
Elio Vittorini
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"We are all imprisoned by something; the question is whether we recognize our chains."
Elio Vittorini
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing who we will become."
Elio Vittorini
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"The freedom to think is the most precious freedom."
Primo Levi
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"Freedom is not given; it is claimed by those brave enough to seize it."
Dino Buzzati
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"Freedom begins where fear ends."
Dino Buzzati
"The mind creates more prisons than any walls ever could."
Italo Svevo
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"Freedom exists not in the absence of constraints, but in the choice of which ones to accept."
Elsa Morante
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Umberto Eco
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"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."
Umberto Eco
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"Freedom is not free."
Umberto Eco
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"Freedom without direction is merely chaos with enthusiasm."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The true prisonhouse is not the camp but prejudice itself."
Primo Levi
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"To maintain one's individuality is an act of rebellion."
Primo Levi
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"Freedom begins as an internal conviction before external reality."
Primo Levi
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"Freedom is the right to construct your own sentences."
Italo Calvino
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"Literature offers the freedom to be multiple selves."
Italo Calvino
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"We are all prisoners of our own histories, yet we alone hold the key to escape."
Elsa Morante
"Freedom exists only in our acceptance of necessity"
Italo Svevo