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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"Do you understand now that their chief concern is not to increase the amount of freedom, but to diminish it?"
Raskolnikov
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"Freedom without love is the greatest slavery."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The greatest prison is the prison of one's own mind."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The hardest prison to escape is the one we build for ourselves."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Freedom exists only in books."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Better to be a slave and not feel it than to be free and suffer."
Natasha Rostova
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"She was not made for the ordinary life that society demanded."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The heart demands what society forbids."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The world is a prison for those who think beyond its walls."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Prison teaches a man the value of freedom more than any philosopher."
Edmond Dantès
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"A man is always a slave. If not to other men, then to circumstances."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Freedom is the most precious gift, but the heaviest burden."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The provincial life suffocates the imaginative spirit."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The convent and marriage are prisons of different kinds."
Emma Bovary
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"Freedom cannot be given, it must be taken"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
Jean Valjean
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"We forge our own chains link by link"
Edmond Dantès
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"Freedom is a burden too heavy to bear."
Raskolnikov
E
"What a miserable thing to be a woman! And yet we are nothing but slaves bound to the whims of men."
Emma Bovary
E
"What is a woman but a mirror reflecting the desires of men?"
Emma Bovary
E
"What is fidelity but the jailer's key?"
Emma Bovary
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"Freedom is worth any sacrifice."
Edmond Dantès
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"The human spirit cannot be truly imprisoned."
Edmond Dantès
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"Freedom without responsibility is the road to destruction."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom."
Ivan Karamazov
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"In this world, we must learn to forgive or be forever chained."
Monte Cristo
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"She wanted to live dangerously, recklessly, freely."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Anything not forbidden is allowed."
Anatole Kuragin
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"A man may live and act honorably without making a sacrifice of his personality to the state"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Let me make myself clear—I am not going to continue this conversation."
Daisy Buchanan