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 what we crave, yet it is what we fear most."Aleksandr Pushkin
"To write one's own story is the highest freedom."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Freedom is the right to choose one's chains."Ivan Turgenev
"Freedom without responsibility is slavery to oneself."Ivan Turgenev
"To be independent requires courage that most lack and few understand."Mikhail Lermontov
"To be forgotten is a freedom that the famous can never know."Mikhail Lermontov
"Mental health they call it. Free the mind."James Joyce
"Better one lifetime on your feet than generations on your knees."James Joyce
"Freedom without restraint is like a river without banks."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The freedom to choose is the greatest burden of all."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Leo Tolstoy
"Life is a gift; how we live it is up to us."Leo Tolstoy
"Every person lives for himself and uses his freedom to the limit, as long as he does not harm others."Leo Tolstoy
"The great thing about this world is that we do not have to account to anybody."Anton Chekhov
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Anton Chekhov
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but not further."Ivan Turgenev
"Every man likes to imagine that he has at least started to live only when he can say that he is not living as he wishes to."Ivan Turgenev
"I have always maintained that in a free country anyone might write anything."Ivan Turgenev
"To change one's opinions is to exchange enslaved thoughts for free ones."Ivan Turgenev
"To be free, one must first understand one's chains."Ivan Turgenev
"Freedom comes to those who write their own history."William Butler Yeats
"I would prefer not to."Samuel Beckett
"At the end of my life, I want to say I did it my way."Samuel Beckett
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."Samuel Beckett
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Oscar Wilde
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the necessities of life."Oscar Wilde
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Forget about being happy. Focus on being free, and happiness will follow."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Freedom is the absence of constraint."Leo Tolstoy