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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"The greatest freedom is freedom from the need for others' approval."Anne Brontë
"Freedom is the greatest gift of the soul."Emily Brontë
"The greatest freedom is freedom of thought."Emily Brontë
"We are forever imprisoned by the choices we made in youth."Thomas Hardy
"Independence is a noble lie we tell ourselves."Thomas Hardy
"If you truly desire something, do not wait for permission to pursue it."George Eliot
"We forge our own chains and are our own jailers"Charles Dickens
"The freedom to think is the greatest freedom of all."Anne Brontë
"Freedom of conscience is worth any earthly sacrifice."Anne Brontë
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Émile Zola
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."Charlotte Brontë
"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing than not be a slave and owe a dependency of gratitude to the whole world."Charlotte Brontë
"I am no longer bound by the rules that cage ordinary women."Charlotte Brontë
"Independence is what people want to feel when they buy something."George Bernard Shaw
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."George Bernard Shaw
"I have never admitted the right of an older generation to lord it over a younger one."George Bernard Shaw
"Independence cannot be conferred as a gift; it must be achieved."George Bernard Shaw
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."George Bernard Shaw
"Freedom cannot be granted; it must be seized by the individual."Emily Brontë
"The body may be imprisoned, but the mind soars free."Emily Brontë
"I would rather be wild and free than safe and constrained."Emily Brontë
"I am not bound by the expectations of my time or station."Emily Brontë
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ear drums from bursting, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Gustave Flaubert
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Gustave Flaubert
"We must never accept as inevitable what destroys the unique in human life."Gustave Flaubert
"The common habit of suppressing her own wants teaches a woman to suppress them till she loses consciousness that she has any."George Eliot
"The burden of our choices makes us responsible for ourselves."George Eliot
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul"Charles Dickens
"I am an enemy of all false doctrine, and I deny the authority of those who would impose ignorance upon us."Émile Zola
"Man cannot be free if he is a slave to his passions."Alexandre Dumas