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