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 tyranny of choice is perhaps the defining condition of modern life."
David Foster Wallace
"True freedom is freedom from the fear of freedom itself."
David Foster Wallace
"Freedom without purpose is just another form of prison."
David Foster Wallace
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"A man may say anything about himself without shame."
Saul Bellow
S
"The freedom to speak is worthless without the wisdom to listen."
Saul Bellow
J
"It is the responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
J.D. Salinger
J
"Freedom means nothing if you can't choose your own path."
Joseph Heller
J
"Freedom requires the courage to make your own mistakes."
Joseph Heller
"The freedom to write is the freedom to live."
Philip Roth
"To be free is to be responsible for what you do with that freedom."
Philip Roth
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"Authority has only the power that we grant it through our obedience."
Norman Mailer
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of liberation."
Norman Mailer
N
"Freedom is the ability to say no to the forces that would control you."
Norman Mailer
"I wanted all things to be free. That's my religion."
Kurt Vonnegut
"When you get to be our age, you ought to be able to speak freely about anything."
Kurt Vonnegut
W
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a bafflement to you."
William S. Burroughs
W
"Censorship is never over for those that have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it."
William S. Burroughs
W
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
William S. Burroughs
W
"Nobody owns you."
William S. Burroughs
W
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
William S. Burroughs
"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."
David Foster Wallace
"Real freedom is about the ability to be present and not escape into fantasy."
David Foster Wallace
"The real freedom is whether you can turn the telescope around."
David Foster Wallace
"The self is the only real prison."
David Foster Wallace
"The modern condition is to be perpetually choosing."
David Foster Wallace
S
"You never have to change anything you got drunk and said."
Saul Bellow
S
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free."
Saul Bellow
S
"The writer must refuse to become a public servant."
Saul Bellow
S
"Only the mind that doesn't depend on power can be truly free."
Saul Bellow
J
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of rebellion."
Joseph Heller