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 terrible thing is that every man has his liberty and nobody knows what to do with it."Henry James
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance—over one's own heart first."Henry James
"One can choose what one does, but hardly one's own being."Marcel Proust
"We must learn to live with uncertainty; it is the price of freedom."Marcel Proust
"Life is too short to spend it being someone you are not."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
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take."André Gide
"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."André Gide
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Albert Camus
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."Albert Camus
"The only way to cope with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that one's very existence is an act of rebellion."Albert Camus
"The only rebel who is free is the one who is free to do nothing."Albert Camus
"To be free is to be without rank, money, and good clothes."Albert Camus
"The freedom of the soul is the highest of all freedoms."Romain Rolland
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to be right; that is mere privilege."Romain Rolland
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."Simone de Beauvoir
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."Simone de Beauvoir
"The authentic subject chooses itself."Simone de Beauvoir
"It is forbidden to forbid."Simone de Beauvoir
"The oppressed are not asked for their consent; they are liberated."Simone de Beauvoir
"Liberty is the right to choose one's chains."Simone de Beauvoir
"The woman who does not choose, chooses servitude."Simone de Beauvoir
"Pleasure in a woman is a duty, not a sin."Simone de Beauvoir
"Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you."Simone de Beauvoir
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that one's presence is an act of rebellion."Anatole France
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."Montesquieu
"Liberty is the right to do everything which the laws permit."Montesquieu
"There is no greater tyranny than that which pretends to liberate."Montesquieu
"The less you own, the freer you become."Montesquieu
"In the state of liberty, we find ourselves not free."Montesquieu