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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"Where does evil come from? I don't know. I only know that it comes from freedom."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Freedom is the air we breathe only when we are truly alive."
Monte Cristo
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"A man is never truly free unless he can be evil."
Raskolnikov
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"We are slaves to our desires."
Raskolnikov
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"Freedom exists only in the land of dreams."
Alexei Vronsky
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"Freedom means nothing if it does not mean freedom to make mistakes."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Freedom is the greatest gift, but also the heaviest burden."
Edmond Dantès
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"She felt suffocated by the quiet contentment of her husband."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Provincial life was her prison."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Her last act was one of escape from unbearable reality."
Gustave Flaubert (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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"A man is always a slave. Either he is a slave to God, or a slave to himself."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men"
Don Quixote
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"The prison could not hold my spirit."
Edmond Dantès
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"A woman should be able to do anything."
Jordan Baker
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"The greatest prison is the one we build within our minds."
Abbé Faria
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"I have purchased my liberty with blood and tears."
Edmond Dantès
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"The provincial life suffocates those born for passion"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was a prisoner of her own expectations"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The town itself seemed a conspiracy against her happiness"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Freedom is worth any price paid."
Edmond Dantès
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"Rebellion and freedom are the highest pursuits of mankind."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Every surface of her world seemed to mock her secret longings"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Forgiveness is the only way to freedom."
Sonya
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"We are all prisoners of our own making."
Raskolnikov
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"We are all prisoners of our circumstances until we choose freedom."
Pierre Bezukhov
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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 greatest prison is one of our own making."
Edmond Dantès
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"Mediocrity was her prison."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She wanted to escape, but there was nowhere to go."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)