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