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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"A man who has suffered so much is entitled to an opinion on his own affairs."Edmond Dantès
"Freedom is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon mankind."Don Quixote
"Who ain't a slave? Tell me that."Ishmael
"I feel cooped up and caged; fain would I stretch myself in free air and under a wide sky."Captain Ahab
"Prison is a place where the light of humanity is most needed."Jean Valjean
"Freedom was the only possible happiness"Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"We are all prisoners of our own desires"Alexei Vronsky
"The greatest prison is one we build ourselves."Estella
"Thou art not my master, and I may refuse what thou demandest."Hester Prynne
"True freedom lies not in the absence of chains but in the knowledge that one carries them by choice."Pierre Bezukhov
"The poor man is free from cares."Sancho Panza
"Freedom is not only a privilege; it is an obligation."Don Quixote
"Freedom is the absence of constraints."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Freedom is the greatest treasure."Edmond Dantès
"Society's rules are chains we willingly wear"Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Freedom is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men."Don Quixote
"Freedom is worth any sacrifice"Edmond Dantès
"Freedom without morality is destruction."Porfiry Petrovich
"How good it would be to escape from all this conventional life."Anna Karenina
"True freedom is impossible without a just cause."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"We are all slaves to something."Anna Karenina
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."Don Quixote
"A man is always a slave. Either to the law or to circumstances."Pierre Bezukhov
"A man is truly free only when he stops believing in his own importance."Pierre Bezukhov
"Men are not born free; they learn freedom through suffering."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"The liberty I claim for myself, I readily concede to you."Elizabeth Bennet
"Every man has a right to his opinion; I respect yours."Edmond Dantès
"Freedom is the highest human need."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Freedom is the greatest treasure a man can possess, next to his honor."Don Quixote
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose."Pierre Bezukhov