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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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Anton Chekhov
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"There is one command I cannot obey, and that is to be happy on command."
Anton Chekhov
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"The human soul is like a bird that becomes weaker when confined."
Anton Chekhov
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"To be free, to accomplish one's own destiny is the object of all civilization."
Anton Chekhov
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"The greatest prison is the one we build within ourselves through convention."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Freedom is understanding that your chains are largely self-imposed."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I want to know not what the world thinks of me, but what I think of myself."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are all subject to the laws of physics, yet we feel free."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The mind is the only thing that cannot be confined."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The only way to understand true freedom is to lose it"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"All I care about is to live by my own thought"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The freedom of thought is the foundation of all freedom."
Maxim Gorky
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"Freedom requires not just the absence of chains, but the presence of choice."
Maxim Gorky
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"To be free is to discover and follow one's true nature."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely selfishness."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The most unbearable thing is freedom without responsibility."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The greatest freedom is the freedom to be oneself."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"True freedom requires the discipline of responsibility."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The human soul cannot be suppressed forever."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Freedom without responsibility is the chaos we call desire."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are all architects of our own prisons."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the choice to transcend it."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of liberation."
Anton Chekhov
"How long have I been in this cage?"
Samuel Beckett
"The only freedom is in surrender."
Samuel Beckett
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"Human beings in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The greatest freedom is that which exists between two equal people."
Leo Tolstoy
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"What is freedom? Freedom to what? The freedom to be loved, and to love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky