Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Milton, John

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Chomsky, Noam

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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 consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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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.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

James, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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.

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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.