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 life of an intellectual is a kind of imprisonment."Saul Bellow
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take."Saul Bellow
"The first rule of freedom is to lose your bearings now and then."Saul Bellow
"A man who does not love solitude cannot love freedom."Cormac McCarthy
"I operate with a lot of freedom."Philip Roth
"Do we need to say that freedom is a complex thing?"Philip Roth
"Freedom is a burden."Philip Roth
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the courage to choose our own path."Carson McCullers
"Freedom begins when we stop seeking permission from others."Carson McCullers
"Every soul must choose for itself."Eudora Welty
"Freedom requires the courage to be vulnerable."Eudora Welty
"Freedom exists only in the space between consent and coercion."Cormac McCarthy
"The truth will set you free, but not before it pisses you off."David Foster Wallace
"Real freedom seems to require discipline and sacrifice."David Foster Wallace
"We're all just looking for permission to be ourselves."David Foster Wallace
"The paradox of freedom is that it requires discipline."David Foster Wallace
"A man's life is his own."Harper Lee
"Freedom is nothing but the ability to choose your own suffering."Saul Bellow
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."Saul Bellow
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Norman Mailer
"You have a choice in this life."Joseph Heller
"We are all prisoners of our own making."Joseph Heller
"Freedom is the most precious right we have."Joseph Heller
"Freedom is the only universally valid principle."Philip Roth
"I am not bound by the life I was given."Philip Roth
"The pornographic imagination is simply the freedom to write what one thinks."Philip Roth
"The greatest prison is the cage of one's own beliefs."Philip Roth
"I am no friend of the modernist writer, but I am opposed to censoring him."Flannery O'Connor
"The so-called freedom to choose leaves us more anxious than ever."David Foster Wallace
"The most dangerous thing you can do is to convince yourself that you're free."David Foster Wallace