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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"The mind must be free before the body can be"
Shevek
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"I thought intelligence would free me, but it imprisoned me instead."
Charlie Gordon
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"We are the generation of mankind that will be free at last."
Shevek
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"We have nothing to give you but your own freedom of thought."
Shevek
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"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air."
Dr. John Watson
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"One cannot create freedom. One can only prevent enslavement."
Shevek
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"Every man must find his own path."
Siddhartha
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"Each person must drink from their own cup."
Siddhartha
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"We are the people who refuse the imperative"
Shevek
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
The Little Prince
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"Freedom comes only through surrender."
Siddhartha
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"True wealth is the ability to follow your own path."
The Alchemist
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"Your past does not define your future unless you allow it to."
Chiang
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"There are no limits except those you accept."
Chiang
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"Seeking means: to have a goal. But finding means: to be free."
Siddhartha
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"The self is both the prison and the key to freedom."
Siddhartha
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"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now."
Chiang
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"The only true law is that which leads to freedom."
Chiang
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"Each man must find his own way; mine may not be yours."
Siddhartha
C
"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now."
Chiang
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Viktor Frankl
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
Viktor Frankl
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Viktor Frankl
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"Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth."
Viktor Frankl
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"The consciousness of one's inner freedom is independent of external circumstances."
Viktor Frankl
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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the West Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the East Coast."
Viktor Frankl
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"Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him."
Viktor Frankl
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"By the unfree choice of their own attitudes they may nevertheless have been free, not entirely dependent on the biological, psychological and sociological conditions."
Viktor Frankl
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Viktor Frankl
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"The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude."
Viktor Frankl