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
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"To write one's own story is the highest freedom."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Freedom is the right to choose one's chains."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Freedom without responsibility is slavery to oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"To be independent requires courage that most lack and few understand."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"To be forgotten is a freedom that the famous can never know."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Mental health they call it. Free the mind."
James Joyce
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"Better one lifetime on your feet than generations on your knees."
James Joyce
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"Freedom without restraint is like a river without banks."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The freedom to choose is the greatest burden of all."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Life is a gift; how we live it is up to us."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Every person lives for himself and uses his freedom to the limit, as long as he does not harm others."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The great thing about this world is that we do not have to account to anybody."
Anton Chekhov
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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."
Anton Chekhov
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but not further."
Ivan Turgenev
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"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
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"I have always maintained that in a free country anyone might write anything."
Ivan Turgenev
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"To change one's opinions is to exchange enslaved thoughts for free ones."
Ivan Turgenev
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"To be free, one must first understand one's chains."
Ivan Turgenev
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"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
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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."
Oscar Wilde
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"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
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"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Forget about being happy. Focus on being free, and happiness will follow."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Freedom is the absence of constraint."
Leo Tolstoy