Top 200 Freedom Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.”

— Tom Hiddleston

102. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

— Baruch Spinoza

103. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

104. “It is up to you to give life a meaning.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

105. “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

— Alan Moore

106. “Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.”

— Emma Watson

107. “Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

108. “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.”

— Lilla Watson

109. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

110. “I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

111. “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

112. “There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”

— Robin Williams

113. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

— Aleister Crowley

114. “Only the person who risks is truly free.”

— William Arthur Ward

115. “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

— Nina Simone

116. “The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

— Randy Komisar

117. “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

118. “In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!”

— Andrew Ryan

119. “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”

— Leo Buscaglia

120. “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

121. “Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

122. “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— George Washington

123. “Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

— Bob Marley

124. “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”

— Lady Gaga

125. “No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

126. “Let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

127. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— Sigmund Freud

128. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

129. “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

130. “You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.”

— Tom Petty

131. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

— John F. Kennedy

132. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

133. “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

134. “What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

135. “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”

— Emma Watson

136. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

— Christopher McCandless

137. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

— Albert Einstein

138. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

139. “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

140. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

— Rumi

141. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

— Ronald Reagan

142. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

143. “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

— Franz Kafka

144. “Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.”

— Jason Mraz

145. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad

146. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

147. “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”

— Milton Friedman

148. “To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness. Care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret. “I am free,” then, you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.”

— Bruce Lee

149. “Freedom is now or never.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

150. “The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.”

— Stephen R. Covey