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
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"The essence of being an American is the freedom to reinvent oneself."
Norman Mailer
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"Freedom is the terrible burden of choosing who we will become."
Norman Mailer
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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world"
Allen Ginsberg
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"To be forgotten is to be free"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Nothing is true; everything is permitted."
William S. Burroughs
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"The greatest love is the love of freedom."
William S. Burroughs
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
William S. Burroughs
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"The only true freedom is the freedom to think."
William S. Burroughs
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"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
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"Freedom is worth fighting for."
William Carlos Williams
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"The minute you start caring about what people think, you're done."
Jack Kerouac
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"There was nowhere to go but everywhere."
Jack Kerouac
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"I am the son of the American night."
Jack Kerouac
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"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
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"The most destructive thing is a closed mind"
e.e. cummings
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"Existence is not some trap; it is a window."
Hart Crane
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"Freedom is worth any price we must pay."
Hart Crane
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"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
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"The greatest freedom is the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them."
William Carlos Williams
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"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
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"The greatest act of rebellion is to be yourself"
Allen Ginsberg
"The imagination is the liberty of the mind."
Wallace Stevens
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"You spend a whole life stuck in lobbies thinking about money instead of standing free on a windy beach."
Jack Kerouac
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"You need a permanent dwelling place, but an open road attitude."
Jack Kerouac
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"I have nowhere to go but everywhere."
Jack Kerouac
"I would like to be that strange thing called free."
Marianne Moore
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"Freedom is earned through the relentless pursuit of truth."
Hart Crane
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"Freedom rings loudest in the hearts of the oppressed."
Hart Crane