20 Quotes about Freedom

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1. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. "True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline." - Mortimer J. Adler
3. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
4. "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." - Jim Morrison
5. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw
6. "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
7. "He who is brave is free." Seneca
8. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
9. "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
10. "No one tries too hard to make the world better. You can never shout too loudly in the name of freedom." - Bruce Wayne
11. "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus
12. "Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epicetus
13. "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington
14. "Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life." - Bob Marley
15. "Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages." - Number 6, The Prisoner
16. "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
17. "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." - Chuck Palahniuk
18. "Freedom lies in being bold." - Robert Frost
19. "Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved." - Elbert Hubbard
20. "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe