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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"I have nothing to lose but my chains"
Raskolnikov
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"Society's chains are often of our own forging."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"We are all prisoners of our own desires."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Freedom and love are not things to be commanded."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Men are tormented by the freedom they possess."
Ivan Karamazov
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"A man should belong to no party; that is what guarantees his freedom."
Pierre Bezukhov
J
"Freedom at last!"
Jean Valjean
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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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"I recognize no authority, I will not obey anyone."
Raskolnikov
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"The degree of one's freedom determines the degree of one's responsibility"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The provincial life suffocates those who dream of greatness"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What seems like freedom is often merely another form of captivity"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"There is something in the human spirit that cannot be reconciled with any slavery, however comfortable."
Pierre Bezukhov
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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
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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
Edmond Dantès
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"The chains of the mind are stronger than any iron bonds."
Edmond Dantès
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"We are all prisoners of circumstance until we choose otherwise."
Monte Cristo
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
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"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude."
Mustapha Mond
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."
John the Savage
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"The Savage cannot make good use of his freedom."
Mustapha Mond
M
"The real problem is the desire to behave oneself."
Mustapha Mond
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"But I don't want to be conditioned."
Bernard Marx
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"We are the slaves of circumstances."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The greater the freedom, the greater the responsibility."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The treasure is not the gold, but the freedom it brings."
Monte Cristo
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"Freedom is everything to him who has been deprived of it"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"True freedom comes not from the absence of constraints, but from the ability to choose one's path"
Ivan Karamazov
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"I have the right to be unhappy."
John the Savage