60 Freedom quotes that will honor people's liberty. Here are the best freedom quotes and sayings to read from famous authors of all time that will surely inspire you. Freedom is the ability to take actions, voice out, or to do change without restrictions, being free to do anything that anyone pleases in their heart's content. Everybody wants freedom, but always remember that you should use your freedom for the good of humanity. May these quotes on freedom help you in finding the true freedom that you might be seeking, and with courage, this liberty that you are looking for will be within your reach. Share these quotes on freedom with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Brontë
2. The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. - Joe Klaas
3. 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. - Virginia Woolf
4. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel
5. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. - John Green
6. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi
7. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. - Jim Morrison
8. When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. - Ralph Ellison
9. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. - Toni Morrison
10. 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
11. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. - Bob Marley
12. Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. - C. JoyBell C.
13. The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. - David Foster Wallace
14. Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost
15. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. - Toni Morrison
16. Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. - Paulo Coelho
17. The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. - C. JoyBell C.
18. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert A. Heinlein
19. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves - Abraham Lincoln
20. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
21. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - William Faulkner
22. I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. - Kahlil Gibran
23. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give life a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre
24. True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. - Mortimer J. Adler
25. The first duty of a man is to think for himself - Jose Marti
26. No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. - Paulo Coelho
27. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. - Arthur Schopenhauer
28. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. - Margaret Atwood
29. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud
30. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones
31. Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. - Jean-Paul Sartre
32. Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. - Jean Paul Sartre
33. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. - Scott Westerfeld
34. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. - Aristotle
35. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela
36. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. - Thich Nhat Hanh
37. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau
38. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein
39. Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? - Kurt Vonnegut
40. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
41. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
42. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison
43. The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. - Chuck Palahniuk
44. There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. - Scott Lync
45. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard
46. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. - Rosa Luxemburg
47. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Wilson Watts
48. There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love. - Cassandra Clare
49. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker - Malcom X
50. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. - Ronald Reagan
52. And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. - Dr. Seuss
53. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Lenin
54. Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be - James Baldwin
55. She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
57. Freely we serve because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall. - John Milton
58. I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. - Theodore Roosevelt
59. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. - Margaret Atwood
60. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon Bonaparte
1. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Brontë
2. The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. - Joe Klaas
3. 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. - Virginia Woolf
4. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel
5. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. - John Green
6. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi
7. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. - Jim Morrison
8. When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. - Ralph Ellison
9. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. - Toni Morrison
10. 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
11. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. - Bob Marley
12. Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. - C. JoyBell C.
13. The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. - David Foster Wallace
14. Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost
15. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. - Toni Morrison
16. Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. - Paulo Coelho
17. The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. - C. JoyBell C.
18. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert A. Heinlein
19. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves - Abraham Lincoln
20. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
21. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - William Faulkner
22. I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. - Kahlil Gibran
23. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give life a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre
24. True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. - Mortimer J. Adler
25. The first duty of a man is to think for himself - Jose Marti
26. No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. - Paulo Coelho
27. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. - Arthur Schopenhauer
28. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. - Margaret Atwood
29. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud
30. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones
31. Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. - Jean-Paul Sartre
32. Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. - Jean Paul Sartre
33. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. - Scott Westerfeld
34. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. - Aristotle
35. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela
36. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. - Thich Nhat Hanh
37. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau
38. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein
39. Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? - Kurt Vonnegut
40. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
41. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
42. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison
43. The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. - Chuck Palahniuk
44. There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. - Scott Lync
45. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard
46. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. - Rosa Luxemburg
47. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Wilson Watts
48. There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love. - Cassandra Clare
49. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker - Malcom X
50. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. - Ronald Reagan
52. And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. - Dr. Seuss
53. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Lenin
54. Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be - James Baldwin
55. She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
57. Freely we serve because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall. - John Milton
58. I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. - Theodore Roosevelt
59. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. - Margaret Atwood
60. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. - Napoleon Bonaparte
60 Freedom quotes that will honor people's liberty
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