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 writer is only free when he can tell the truth."Flannery O'Connor
"I want to free the reader from the prison of certainty."Flannery O'Connor
"The miracle of life is that we get to choose who we become."Robertson Davies
"The freedom to choose is also the burden of choice."Robertson Davies
"A man's life is his own."Cormac McCarthy
"Freedom is a heavy stone."Cormac McCarthy
"Freedom demands responsibility."Cormac McCarthy
"Freedom is worth dying for."Cormac McCarthy
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to choose among them."Carson McCullers
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to be authentically yourself."Carson McCullers
"To forgive is to free yourself from the past."Eudora Welty
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to choose which constraints to accept."Joyce Carol Oates
"Freedom is a hard thing to want when you've been denied it."Margaret Atwood
"Feet, what do I need you for? I have wings to fly."Margaret Atwood
"Freedom comes from nowhere in particular."Margaret Atwood
"The man is not in control; the man is not free."Margaret Atwood
"The freedom to be ourselves is the greatest freedom"Robertson Davies
"The writer is only free when he can tell the truth, and the truth is always strange."Flannery O'Connor
"Goodness is something chosen. When a man is born, he is free to choose his path. There is no predetermined fate except the one we create for ourselves."Cormac McCarthy
"The only way to be free is to accept that you are not free."Cormac McCarthy
"We are the breakers of our own silences."Eudora Welty
"The freedom to fail is essential to creativity."Eudora Welty
"Freedom is terrifying because it demands we take responsibility for ourselves."Joyce Carol Oates
"Freedom and responsibility are inseparable twins."Joyce Carol Oates
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."Harper Lee
"Until you've lost your reputation, you don't know how freeing it can be."Harper Lee
"We are all products of our time and place, yet we can still choose our path."Harper Lee
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people."David Foster Wallace
"To be truly alone is to be truly free."David Foster Wallace
"There is no more terrifying freedom than the freedom to make your own meaning."David Foster Wallace