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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"To be oneself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is the right to be exactly who you are."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is the right to fail and try again."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Freedom is worth fighting for."
Selma Lagerlöf
"The freedom to choose is the freedom to become."
Robert Browning
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"Anxiety is the vertigo of freedom."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being driven into the street; but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Søren Kierkegaard
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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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"The only absolute principle for an existing individual is to choose."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away for expedients."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of one is an act of rebellion."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The more you have the more you are occupied; the less you have the more free you are."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Once you label me, you negate me."
Søren Kierkegaard
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the necessaries of life."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"True freedom lies in the power of decision."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Freedom requires eternal vigilance."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Liberty is the right to everything one is permitted to do."
August Strindberg
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"The man who has overcome his fears will be truly free."
August Strindberg
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"The greatest threat to freedom is an ignorant populace."
August Strindberg
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"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but its highest expression."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the human spirit."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Liberty is the first condition for anything good."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Henrik Ibsen
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"What is it to be a woman? It is to be responsible for oneself."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The world will never be happy until every man is free."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society."
Henrik Ibsen
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"A woman cannot become truly herself until she becomes independent."
Henrik Ibsen
"Freedom cannot be given; it must be taken."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson