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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

— Albert Camus

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

— Cicero

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison.

— Bertrand Russell

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

— Virginia Woolf

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

— Epictetus

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

— Lao Tzu

No man is free who is not master of himself.

— Epictetus

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

— Rumi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

He who is brave is free.

— Seneca

No person is your friend if he demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

— Epictetus

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

— John Milton

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

— Albert Camus

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

— Epicurus

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