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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"Freedom begins when we cease fearing our own shadows."Hans Christian Andersen
"Freedom is the burden and blessing of choosing oneself daily."Hans Christian Andersen
"Burn down your cities and leave no trace of your history!"Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Freedom itself is a most fragile thing."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Some women live their whole lives in the kitchen. Others, in the backyard."Anna Akhmatova
"I will not change my ways to suit you."Anna Akhmatova
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our suffering."Anna Akhmatova
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."Søren Kierkegaard
"Take away the law and thou hast not made men more free; thou hast made them lose their freedom."Søren Kierkegaard
"We are always standing at the abyss; we are always free to jump."Søren Kierkegaard
"True freedom is the freedom to choose one's own chains."Søren Kierkegaard
"We become enslaved not by force but by the choices we make daily."Søren Kierkegaard
"There is no freedom without the freedom to fail."August Strindberg
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."August Strindberg
"The only true freedom is the freedom to choose your own suffering."August Strindberg
"What others think of you is their business, not yours."August Strindberg
"Freedom without responsibility becomes merely chaos."Selma Lagerlöf
"Freedom is an internal state before it can become an external reality."Selma Lagerlöf
"Beware of solidarity! It can become a prison of thought."Henrik Ibsen
"A woman's duty to herself must equal her duty to others."Henrik Ibsen
"Freedom is the burden we bear for being conscious."Henrik Ibsen
"Freedom of speech is the foundation of all other freedoms."Boris Pasternak
"True freedom comes when we understand our responsibility to others."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"When you know that you are just going to be destroyed anyway, all you say or do is quite free."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"A free society requires the vigilance of free men."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"We become free only when we choose to serve something higher."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and courage."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I have learned that true freedom comes from accepting what cannot be changed."Anna Akhmatova
"I am my own master, responsible only to my conscience and my art."Anna Akhmatova