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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"The boy had no choice. He never did."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"I didn't have a choice. None of us did."
Ender Wiggin
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"To know the future absolutely is to be trapped by it as surely as in any prison"
Paul Atreides
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"We shape our own reality through choice"
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"No one here is free"
Estraven
P
"My destiny is my own."
Paul Atreides
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"The fact that we live here is bad enough, but the fact that we live here and are watched over by robots is intolerable."
Arthur Dent
E
"The mind must be free before the body can be."
Estraven
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"Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin."
Ryland Grace
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"We are both prisoners and architects of our own existence."
Kris Kelvin
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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."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"I was finally in control of my own destiny."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"The greatest prize wasn't wealth; it was freedom."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"A man may do anything he wishes and still be free if he does not wish to do those things which society demands of him"
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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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."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
K
"We are explorers of the cosmos but prisoners of our own hearts."
Kris Kelvin
W
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"Ignorance might be bliss, but it's also imprisonment."
Charlie Gordon
P
"A man who sees the future is held prisoner to it."
Paul Atreides
S
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that person is an act of rebellion."
Shevek
S
"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the choice of constraint."
Shevek
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"I choose to die rather than live as a servant"
Ye Wenjie
S
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, world-wide, universal disagreement."
Shevek
S
"We are slaves in all but name to the spice."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"We are the people of the world. We have no leaders because we are free."
Shevek
S
"We must learn to live without dominion"
Shevek
P
"Choice, always choice."
Paul Atreides
S
"The strongest bulwark against tyranny is an informed populace."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
S
"Freedom is not a gift."
Shevek
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"To serve is to be free."
Takver