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