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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"But he is a slave because he has shut the Divine Vision of Imagination."William Blake
"There is no greater power than the power to choose."Christina Rossetti
"The greatest freedom is freedom from the need to please others."Christina Rossetti
"To defy the Powerful is the first step toward Freedom."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Freedom is not given; it must be seized and defended anew by each generation."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Freedom is the birthright of every conscious being."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To be truly free, one must free the mind first."Aphra Behn
"The greatest of all earthly pleasures is to be independent."Aphra Behn
"A woman's honor is her own, not her father's or husband's."Aphra Behn
"The greatest gift is the freedom to choose one's own path."Aphra Behn
"Freedom is the natural state of all creatures."Aphra Behn
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all other freedoms."Eliza Haywood
"Society's expectations are merely chains adorned with jewels."Eliza Haywood
"To be independent is to be truly alive."Eliza Haywood
"The price of independence is eternal vigilance against the status quo."Eliza Haywood
"To live authentically is to live in constant tension with society."Eliza Haywood
"Liberty is worth the cost of life only to a man of character and spirit."Jonathan Swift
"The most fundamental form of freedom is freedom of thought."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Every human being has a right to freedom of thought."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all human progress."Eliza Haywood
"Freedom begins in the mind before it manifests in the world."Christina Rossetti
"Freedom is the permission we give ourselves."Christina Rossetti
"Fear is the passion of slaves; freedom belongs to the brave."Samuel Johnson
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it."Samuel Johnson
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all liberty."Aphra Behn
"The mind is the only true realm of freedom."Aphra Behn
"The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round, even of a Universe would soon become a Mill with complicated wheels."William Blake
"Damn braces. Bless relaxes."William Blake
"Tyrants would want to make all equal that they might all be slaves."William Blake
"Without Imagination no real Freedom."William Blake