Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"The worst prison is to be prisoner of yourself and your own thoughts."
Fernando Pessoa
A
"The past informs us, but it need not imprison us."
Austin Clarke
A
"The strongest chains are often invisible."
Austin Clarke
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the wisdom to choose your own."
Patrick Kavanagh
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos; responsibility without freedom is slavery."
Patrick Kavanagh
C
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Christy Brown
C
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Christy Brown
J
"We are all slaves to our own desires, and freedom is merely the illusion we create to comfort ourselves."
José María de Eça de Queirós
S
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Seán Ó Faoláin
S
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
Seán Ó Faoláin
C
"True freedom comes from within, not from external circumstances."
Christy Brown
S
"The patronage of the state is a poisoned chalice for the artist."
Seamus Heaney
S
"Formal discipline is not a restraint on freedom but a vehicle for it."
Seamus Heaney
P
"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains but the presence of choice."
Padraig Colum
P
"Freedom is purchased not with gold but with vigilance."
Padraig Colum
"The only freedom we really want is the freedom to be ourselves"
Frank O'Connor
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion"
Frank O'Connor
"Freedom without discipline becomes another prison"
Patrick Kavanagh
"The only freedom worth having is the freedom to be yourself"
Patrick Kavanagh
A
"Freedom begins when we refuse to accept the narratives written for us."
Austin Clarke
A
"The price of freedom is the willingness to be misunderstood."
Austin Clarke
S
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the wisdom to choose them well."
Seán Ó Faoláin
B
"I say to hell with commonsense."
Brendan Behan
A
"Words have the power to either chain or liberate."
Austin Clarke
A
"Every generation must redefine freedom for itself."
Austin Clarke
"The freedom to create is the only freedom that truly matters"
Patrick Kavanagh
S
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Sean O'Casey
S
"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."
Sean O'Casey
S
"Feel free. And don't feel bad about your freedom."
Seamus Heaney