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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"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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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Goldstein
J
"The night is my accomplice; darkness is my ally."
Jean Valjean
N
"We're all trapped by our own circumstances."
Nick Carraway
Y
"I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running away from your war."
Yossarian
Y
"I'll do anything to escape this war."
Yossarian
B
"And that, he reflected, was the final and supreme indignity."
Bernard Marx
B
"I don't like the idea of conditioning people in ways that make them, in the conventional sense, unfit."
Bernard Marx
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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
W
"No one is free, except the dead."
Winston Smith
I
"The gift of freedom is the greatest gift, and yet it is the most terrible."
Ivan Karamazov
I
"Man is free to choose, but he is not free from the consequences of his choice."
Ivan Karamazov
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"I'm afraid of freedom"
Lenina Crowne
J
"To be free—to be freer than a eunuch"
John the Savage
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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
P
"The greatest freedom is the freedom of thought"
Pierre Bezukhov
I
"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than finding someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom"
Ivan Karamazov
J
"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy"
John the Savage
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"
John the Savage
M
"The World State exists to make people happy, not free"
Mustapha Mond
P
"No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so."
Pierre Bezukhov
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
I
"Man's sole business is to prove to himself that he is a man and not a piano key"
Ivan Karamazov
I
"The freedom to choose is the greatest curse and blessing"
Ivan Karamazov
C
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Chief Bromden
C
"I'm tired of this game."
Cheswick
C
"We were free for a while."
Chief Bromden
R
"The real world is out there."
Randle McMurphy
C
"That's what freedom means."
Chief Bromden
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of victory."
Yossarian