Freedom Quotes

"I am no bird and no net ensnares me."

"I am not a woman to be tamed."

"The greatest chains are those we forge ourselves."

"The greatest power is the power to choose."

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current power structures."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"A man cannot be made comfortable unless he is made free."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the occasional necessity of life, but anything further is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of fiction."

"Freedom lies not in the absence of restraint, but in the wise use of our faculties."

"We are all prisoners to our own choices, yet free in our own minds."

"The past teaches, but it need not imprison us."

"Social conventions are the chains we forge and then pretend we cannot break."

"A maiden's name should be unknown beyond the gates of her father's house."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

"The chains we forge are wrought from our own refusal."

"What is freedom but the license to become ourselves?"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

"I am not a bird and no net ensnares me."

"I would rather be a slave of my passions than a slave to convention."

"Independence is happiness."

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current orthodoxy."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Let them think what they will of my character."

"To be truly free is to be responsible for oneself."

"The mind confined by others' expectations cannot flourish."