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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"All good things are wild and free"
Henry David Thoreau
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"The youth may build or plant or sail or do nothing but go idling along"
Henry David Thoreau
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"Art thou a slave? Then thou canst not be my friend."
Zarathustra
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
Seneca
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"The universe has already secured freedom for you, if you are willing to use it."
Seneca
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"True freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the right constraints."
Seneca
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"True freedom means being free from fear and desire."
Seneca
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Zarathustra
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"True freedom is being your own master."
Seneca
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"I am no longer afraid of myself, of my desires and impulses."
Siddhartha
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Zarathustra
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"The only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a life as may enable you to do without these."
Henry David Thoreau
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"All good things are wild, and free, yet how few enjoy them."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I love a broad margin to my life."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
Seneca
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"Losing all hope was freedom."
Seneca
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"No one can rob you of your free will."
Seneca
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"No one is free who is a slave to the body."
Seneca
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"Freedom is not the absence of chains, but freedom from desire for them."
Siddhartha
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"In accepting my nature, I found my freedom."
Siddhartha
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"Oh, that ye understood my word: 'Do always what thou wilt—and let no one compel thee!'"
Zarathustra
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"I would that ye were to me as is the wind when it swelleth over the sea."
Zarathustra
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"What is the prisoner's deepest thought?—'Freedom!'"
Zarathustra
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"Freedom can neither be given nor taken away; it is our natural state."
Seneca
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"No one can rob you of your will; that is your own."
Seneca
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"I love a broad margin to my life."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a life."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I am a law only for my own; I am not a law for all."
Zarathustra
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, it does not exist."
Zarathustra