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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Pound, Ezra

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

11.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drummond, William

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Horace

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

29.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

James, William

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

Orwell, George

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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

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.