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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"Freedom is the birthright of all."Hilda Doolittle
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."Kurt Vonnegut
"The truth is that we are trapped, my friend. We are trapped."Kurt Vonnegut
"Believe me I am not my brother's keeper."Kurt Vonnegut
"The artist must be freed from the shackles of convention."William Carlos Williams
"Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, forget all inhibitions."William Carlos Williams
"Freedom is the right to fail."William Carlos Williams
"The mind has shown itself at times too much the baked and branded slave of fate."Hart Crane
"Follow your inner moonlight, do not hide the madness."Allen Ginsberg
"The only real freedom is freedom of thought."Allen Ginsberg
"The self must be conquered before true freedom is possible."Hilda Doolittle
"Escape is not for the bird or the butterfly."Marianne Moore
"It's only when we lost everything that we're free to do anything."Jack Kerouac
"Freedom is the freedom to be uncomfortable with yourself."Jack Kerouac
"I am not willing to live for other people."Amy Lowell
"Freedom is worth fighting for."Amy Lowell
"The mind works best when freed from unnecessary convention."William Carlos Williams
"The pursuit of understanding is the pursuit of freedom."William Carlos Williams
"The imagination is the only faculty that truly liberates us."Hart Crane
"The imagination is the only truly free faculty we possess."Hart Crane
"The mind can soar where the body is bound."Hilda Doolittle
"I have found freedom in accepting what cannot be changed."Hilda Doolittle
"The act of imagination is an act of freedom."Wallace Stevens
"The imagination is where freedom truly resides."Wallace Stevens
"Freedom is the breath of the soul."Fannie Hurst
"Freedom is worth fighting for."Fannie Hurst
"If I have freedom in my love, and in my soul am free, angels envy me."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Freedom is the power to do what you know is right."Marianne Moore
"No one may have any other notion of what you ought to be than the notion you have of it yourself."Marianne Moore