Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

10.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

Washington, George

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean