Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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 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 grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Washington, George

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

Voltaire

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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.