Quotes about freedom
11 passages from classic authors that speak of freedom, for example by Michel de Montaigne, Petrarch and Henrik Ibsen.
We kept the passages whose text touches on the theme, starting with those where it comes up most. Each is given word for word, with its author, its work and the reference of the passage. To browse an author’s quotes, follow the name.
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“We must reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free, wherein to settle our true liberty, our principal solitude and retreat.”
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“Such was my innate longing for liberty, that I studiously avoided those whose very name seemed incompatible with the freedom that I loved.”
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“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom, they are the pillars of society.”
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“Yes, farewell! Liberty! New life! Resurrection from the dead! Unspeakable moment!”
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“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
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“The simplicity of the tea-room and its freedom from vulgarity make it truly a sanctuary from the vexations of the outer world.”
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“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”
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“They felt very happy; the sense of youth, health and life, of free eager onward motion, gained possession of both; it grew stronger every instant.”
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“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.”
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“With me along the strip of Herbage strown / That just divides the desert from the sown, / Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot-- / And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne!”