Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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

Hamilton, Edith

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

11.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

12.

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)

13.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

14.

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

Milton, John

15.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

16.

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

17.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

18.

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

Orwell, George

19.

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

Mandela, Nelson

20.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

25.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Rushdie, Salman

28.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

29.

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

Mckern, Leo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

Herbert, Frank

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

37.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

38.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

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

45.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

46.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

47.

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.

48.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

49.

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

Orwell, George

50.

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

Malcolm X