Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pascal, Blaise

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

James, William

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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 is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Voltaire

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stone, W. Clement

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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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

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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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

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

Drummond, William