Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

William Hazlitt

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Scott, Hazel

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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, 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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada