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 is the burden of choice, and choice requires wisdom."Boris Pasternak
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."Nikolai Gogol
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."Maxim Gorky
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Maxim Gorky
"I am not required to make sense to you; I am only required to be true to myself."Anna Akhmatova
"Freedom is knowing which chains we must break and which we must carry."Anna Akhmatova
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to be true to yourself."Anna Akhmatova
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Freedom is the ability to say two plus two make four."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The human soul yearns for freedom; it cannot flourish in chains."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"We are free to the extent that we understand necessity."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"In Russian, there is no word for freedom."Mikhail Lermontov
"Freedom is the right of all beings."Mikhail Lermontov
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."Vladimir Nabokov
"The freedom to create is the only true freedom."Vladimir Nabokov
"Freedom! That's the word we're all seeking."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Freedom of expression is sacred."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Freedom is the breath of life."Aleksandr Pushkin
"We are prisoners of our own making."Nikolai Gogol
"We are all struggling against invisible chains."Nikolai Gogol
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and sacrifice."Nikolai Gogol
"We are condemned to be free, yet we crave captivity."Nikolai Gogol
"The freedom to speak is worthless without something worth saying."Boris Pasternak
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."Maxim Gorky
"The greatest gift is the ability to choose one's own path."Maxim Gorky
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."Ivan Turgenev
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Ivan Turgenev
"A man is free only when he knows the truth."Ivan Turgenev
"Freedom cannot be given; it must be taken."Aleksandr Pushkin
"I do not believe in fate, only in the choices we make."Aleksandr Pushkin
