Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Mckern, Leo

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Persius

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Albert Einstein

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Ruskin, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

James, William

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Luxemburg, Rosa