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 only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Stendhal
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"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."
Stendhal
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"Freedom is the right to choose one's chains."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Freedom is the air we breathe; without it, we suffocate."
Théophile Gautier
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"To be free is to be responsible for your own choices."
Théophile Gautier
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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Sand
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"I am no bird and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
George Sand
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"Freedom is the ability to choose even what destroys us."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Freedom is the birthright of every thinking being."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Freedom without responsibility becomes chaos."
Guy de Maupassant
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"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I am not fond of the idea of confining women to their families perpetually."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Mankind will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"A woman perfume to herself; she is not to exist for others."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Every individual has a right to live, and to have his proper rights protected."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I cannot bear fetters."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I cannot accept the belief that woman was created solely to be the companion of man."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The spirit of liberty is the inspiration for human progress."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"We are all imprisoned by our own thoughts."
Gérard de Nerval
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"To live authentically is to live in defiance of convention."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos masquerading as liberty."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"To be free is to be responsible for one's own becoming."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Freedom is not the absence of restrictions, but the right to choose one's path."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Freedom is the right to make your own mistakes and learn from them."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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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."
Stendhal
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"Every act of defiance is a victory of the spirit."
Stendhal
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"Woman is not made to be the slave of man."
George Sand
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
George Sand
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"The truest form of luxury is freedom."
George Sand
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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."
Théophile Gautier