Quotes about Freedom
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That
— Victor Hugo
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
— Victor Hugo
His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
— Victor Hugo
With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.
— Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.
— Victor Hugo
We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.
— Victor Hugo
The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.
— Victor Hugo
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
— LM Montgomery
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
— Milan Kundera
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
— Milan Kundera
Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
— Milan Kundera