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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"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The more you own, the less you are free."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The only prison is ignorance, the only freedom is knowledge."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The greatest power is the power to choose your own path."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Freedom is the birthright of every conscious being."
Robert Browning
"Freedom without responsibility becomes chaos."
Robert Browning
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"It is completely unimportant whether I am found attractive or unattractive by others."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is the condition of the soul."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Resistance to truth is resistance to freedom."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"To be yourself in a world that constantly tries to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is earned through the courage of conviction."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is a burden few are willing to bear."
Knut Hamsun
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"Freedom requires the courage to be utterly alone."
Knut Hamsun
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"Let each man make his own path through the forest of life."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The mind must be free for the heart to speak."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"To create without fear is to create with freedom."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"We build prisons from our own limitations."
Knut Hamsun
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"Freedom is the birthright of every soul."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"A liar is in bondage because he must keep track of what he has already said."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Human existence entails a radical choice."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains, but the presence of choice."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Freedom is the breath of the soul."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is both a right and a responsibility."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"We are all prisoners of our own thoughts, yet we mistake this prison for freedom."
Knut Hamsun
"Better to live and die unknown than to live a slave to popular opinion."
Robert Browning
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"Intellectual freedom is as precious as bread to the body."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely license; true freedom is disciplined by conscience."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson