Freedom Quotes

"I have discovered that freedom is not the absence of chains, but their acknowledgment."

"The real prison-house is the self."

"Readers are born free, and everywhere they are in chains."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."

"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but the ability to choose it willingly."

"Freedom is the right to fail, as much as the right to succeed."

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects the freedom of others."

"The foundation of freedom is responsibility for the consequences of one's choices."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ear drums from bursting, but anything further than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"If you let people define you by your past, you will always be a prisoner of it."

"Freedom means choice, and choice means responsibility."

"The individual must rebel against society's false norms."

"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 that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"True freedom lies not in the absence of rules, but in the ability to choose them."

"The freedom to create is the freedom that makes all other freedoms possible."

"Tolerance of the intolerable leads to the death of freedom itself."

"True freedom lies not in the absence of constraints, but in the mastery of one's desires."

"The freedom of an artist is found only in complete honesty."

"To be truly alone is to finally be free."

"Freedom is not just the right to choose, but the responsibility that follows."

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."

"Independence is the fruit of struggle."

"The greatest torture for a writer is a complete loss of privacy."

"The real moment of flight comes when the soul is freed from the body's laws."

"Freedom is not something that one can be given; it is something that one must take."

"We are all slaves to something—the question is what we choose to serve."

"A woman cannot be herself in modern society, it is an exclusively male society."

"Freedom is the greatest gift, yet the hardest to accept."

"Freedom demands responsibility; power demands restraint."

"The same fate that governs the stars governs our lives, yet we are free."