Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"The prison is a living tomb."
Edmond Dantès
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"No one and nothing can bind me; I am free."
Alexei Vronsky
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"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
Raskolnikov
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"The invisible chains of society bind us more tightly than iron."
Raskolnikov
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"The greatest human boon is independence."
Edmond Dantès
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"Each person lives for himself, using freedom to attain his personal happiness."
Alexei Vronsky
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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 (Narrator)
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"There is always a choice, though sometimes it is a terrible one."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We are prisoners of our own desires."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men."
Don Quixote
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"Women are rarely allowed the freedom that men possess."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The greatest treasure is freedom."
Abbé Faria
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"There is something in the human spirit that will not be bound by any chains."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
Raskolnikov
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"Freedom is the greatest gift a man can possess."
Edmond Dantès
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"She was imprisoned by her own choices"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She understood too late that freedom and love are not the same"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The freedom to choose is more precious than the chains of certainty."
Don Quixote
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"True freedom comes through submission to love."
Sonya
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"Liberty, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men."
Don Quixote
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"The freedom that consists in doing what you want is not worth having."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The soul must be free to be truly happy"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Liberty is a small thing, compared to love."
Marius Pontmercy
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"I came to understand that freedom without love is merely captivity of the soul."
Raskolnikov
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"She felt that she was not living her own life."
Anna Karenina
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"Freedom comes from within, not from circumstances."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We are all prisoners of our own making."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The past chains us only if we allow it."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"What have I to do with him?—I am no longer his!"
Hester Prynne
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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."
Pierre Bezukhov