Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

- Alan Dean Foster

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Norman O.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Drummond, William

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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 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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Pericles

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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