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