Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adler, Mortimer J.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

William Hazlitt

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Pericles

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma