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 could go away and never come back"
George Milton
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"I could live so easy"
George Milton
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"Freedom is the right to live as one chooses."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"We are not trapped or locked up in these bones."
Lee
L
"You are free. That's the hardest thing in the world to understand."
Lee
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"One must distinguish between the freedom of man and the slavery of man."
Pierre Bezukhov
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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 personal insult."
Yossarian
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"I could go away and never come back"
George Milton
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"Give us room"
George Milton
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"God Almighty, if I was alone I could live so easy"
George Milton
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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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"They could not stop you thinking, but they could stop you from living your thoughts."
Winston Smith
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Captain Beatty
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"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door."
Captain Beatty
C
"Do you understand now why books are hated and feared?"
Captain Beatty
C
"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading."
Captain Beatty
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"We are not trapped unless we believe we are trapped."
Lee
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"I could go away. I could go off in the hills there. Some place I'd find a cave"
George Milton
C
"There is more than one way to burn a book."
Captain Beatty
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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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"Humanity is not ready for freedom, Winston. It is too fragile a thing to be handled by the unprepared."
O'Brien
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"We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And that to me is the most thrilling thing about living."
Lee
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"The best things in life are free, but the military has them all."
Yossarian
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"He wanted to live his own life and not sacrifice himself for something he didn't believe in."
Yossarian
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"Every man has a right to die for his country, but not an obligation."
Yossarian
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"Freedom is the birthright of every soul."
Pierre Bezukhov
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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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"The burden of choice is the burden of freedom."
Lee
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"There's no grown-ups here."
Piggy
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"We'll hunt and feast and have fun."
Jack Merridew