Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Drummond, William

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.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

11.

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

12.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Stone, W. Clement

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Epictetus

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mckern, Leo

36.

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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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

39.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Ruskin, John

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Pascal, Blaise