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Quotes including the word “freedom”.

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Mikhail Bakunin

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

de Simone Beauvoir

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.

Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Eminescu

There is no freedom, no culture without work.

Anne Frank

I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Viktor Frankl

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Viktor Frankl

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, to choose one’s own way.

Paulo Freire

Education means freedom.

Sigmund Freud

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Martin Heidegger

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Isokratis

Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.

Victor Jara

Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired at the expense of others' freedom,

Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Lenin

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

John Locke

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Mykola Lysenko

Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,

Nelson Mandela

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

Herbert Marcuse

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Gabriela Mistral

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Montaigne

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Jim Morrison

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Pericles

Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.

Robespierre

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Fyodor Tyutchev

There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

Durant Will

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Stefan Zweig

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Stefan Zweig

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.