7,738 Quotes About Freedom


  • Author Friedrich Hölderlin
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    You wanted greater thingsBut love forces all of us downAnd sorrow bows us still harder.They bend us back where we began.Are there not in the hallowed nightAlso right things?Things that are straight and true?So I learned.For never, as mortal teachers do,Have you, my deities,Upholders of all thingsLed me with cautionOn level pathways.The gods say to humans,"Taste everythingAnd learn by that nourishmentTo give thanks for all thingsAnd know what it is to be free to quitAnd go where you like.

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  • Author John Marshall
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    . . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.

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  • Author Jeff Lindsay
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    In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

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  • Author Max Stirner
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    Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits,or,more expressively, not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently,do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others...He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

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