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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"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every burned book enlightens the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mind is a temple if it is a prison."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you truly are."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Freedom is sacred."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"To be free in any sense is to be willing to be responsible."
Henry James
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely license."
François Mauriac
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"The soul cannot be imprisoned by circumstance."
François Mauriac
"The lack of modesty in women is the result of too much freedom."
Mark Twain
"It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races."
Mark Twain
"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave."
Mark Twain
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"Freedom is a blessing that has cost many lives to secure."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A man must follow his own compass, regardless of what others believe."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I would prefer not to."
Herman Melville
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"A ship is worse than a prison; it is a tyrant."
Herman Melville
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"I have no country; the whole world is my world."
Anatole France
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"It is forbidden to forbid."
Anatole France
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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Anatole France
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"Woman is not made to be the slave of man."
Anatole France
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"Forgetting is the privilege of the free."
Anatole France
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence is an act of rebellion."
Anatole France
"Freedom is a word written on the chains that bind us."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"True freedom lies not in the absence of constraints, but in accepting them consciously."
François Mauriac
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"Freedom is the terrible gift of having to choose."
François Mauriac
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
Mark Twain
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Mark Twain
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"I would prefer not to."
Herman Melville
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"I stand alone in myself, responsible only to myself."
Herman Melville