Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Malcolm X

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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 very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mandela, Nelson

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Pike, Albert

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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