Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Clinton, Bill

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

11.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lord Acton

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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