Freedom Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man does not live by bread alone.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky