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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"Every man should be free to do as he likes."William S. Burroughs
"The essence of being an American is the freedom to reinvent oneself."Norman Mailer
"Freedom is the terrible burden of choosing who we will become."Norman Mailer
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world"Allen Ginsberg
"To be forgotten is to be free"Allen Ginsberg
"Nothing is true; everything is permitted."William S. Burroughs
"The greatest love is the love of freedom."William S. Burroughs
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."William S. Burroughs
"The only true freedom is the freedom to think."William S. Burroughs
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed; but anything more than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."William Carlos Williams
"Freedom is worth fighting for."William Carlos Williams
"The minute you start caring about what people think, you're done."Jack Kerouac
"There was nowhere to go but everywhere."Jack Kerouac
"I am the son of the American night."Jack Kerouac
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight"e.e. cummings
"The most destructive thing is a closed mind"e.e. cummings
"Existence is not some trap; it is a window."Hart Crane
"Freedom is worth any price we must pay."Hart Crane
"Freedom is the breath of life."Hart Crane
"To those who believe their passions make them freer, I would say they are mistaken."Kurt Vonnegut
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them."William Carlos Williams
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion"Allen Ginsberg
"The greatest act of rebellion is to be yourself"Allen Ginsberg
"The imagination is the liberty of the mind."Wallace Stevens
"You spend a whole life stuck in lobbies thinking about money instead of standing free on a windy beach."Jack Kerouac
"You need a permanent dwelling place, but an open road attitude."Jack Kerouac
"I have nowhere to go but everywhere."Jack Kerouac
"I would like to be that strange thing called free."Marianne Moore
"Freedom is earned through the relentless pursuit of truth."Hart Crane
"Freedom rings loudest in the hearts of the oppressed."Hart Crane