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 is the burden of infinite choices."
John Banville
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely the privilege of the fool."
Luís de Camões
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"The greatest prison is the one we build within our own minds."
Eça de Queirós
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"Freedom is an illusion we cherish because captivity is unbearable."
Eça de Queirós
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Saramago
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"Freedom is the space between who we are and who we choose to become."
Saramago
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains."
Austin Clarke
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"Freedom requires eternal vigilance."
Austin Clarke
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"Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Freedom is an illusion we maintain to avoid the comfort of complete surrender."
John Banville
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"Freedom without discipline is chaos disguised as liberty."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing our own suffering."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Freedom begins in the mind before it manifests in the world."
Padraig Colum
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely anarchy in disguise."
Padraig Colum
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"The freedom to think is the most dangerous freedom of all."
Saramago
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"Freedom without virtue is merely the license to destroy oneself."
Luís de Camões
L
"The body may be imprisoned, but the spirit knows no chains."
Luís de Camões
"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the right to choose your constraints"
Patrick Kavanagh
"Freedom is not given but taken"
Patrick Kavanagh
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"Freedom is not the absence of chains but their transcendence."
Fernando Pessoa
J
"Freedom is the burden we bear willingly."
John Banville
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"Freedom is the burden we cannot put down."
John Banville
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"Freedom is the anxiety of having to choose."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Freedom is the burden of unlimited possibility."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"We are all products of our past, but we need not be prisoners of it."
Austin Clarke
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"We inherit languages that were used to oppress us, and we remake them as tools of freedom."
Austin Clarke
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"Freedom is not granted; it is claimed through the exercise of consciousness."
Austin Clarke
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"Freedoms are not given, they are taken."
Seamus Heaney
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"Freedom is the birthright of every soul."
Seamus Heaney
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains."
Padraig Colum