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 ultimate virtue is to allow others their own truth."Herman Melville
"The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Americans are free to make money, but they are not free to think."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Freedom is an illusion created to control the masses."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Freedom exists only in the space between our thoughts."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Freedom is the breath of life."Romain Rolland
"Freedom requires responsibility."Romain Rolland
"It is forbidden to forbid."Anatole France
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."Anatole France
"No government has the right to prevent its citizens from thinking freely."Anatole France
"Freedom of conscience is not compatible with loyalty to any temporal power."Anatole France
"Freedom without responsibility becomes license, not liberty."François Mauriac
"We become imprisoned by the choices we refuse to make."François Mauriac
"Freedom is the most precious of all gifts, and the hardest to use"Henry James
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos with a different name"Henry James
"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
"Freedom lies in being bold."Marcel Proust
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."Marcel Proust
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."André Gide
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."André Gide
"The secret to living well is to live like nobody's watching."André Gide
"I came into the world free and everywhere I see people in chains."André Gide
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."André Gide
"The human soul requires her freedom."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but the acceptance of it."Romain Rolland
"Freedom is responsibility."Romain Rolland
"The only real prison is fear."François Mauriac
"It is forbidden to forbid, but it is not forbidden to forgive."Anatole France
"Freedom is the burden we all carry, whether we acknowledge it or not."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Freedom is responsibility in disguise."Louis-Ferdinand Céline