Motivational Quotes

Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Aristotle

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

11.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

13.

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

14.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

15.

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

Malcolm X

16.

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

17.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

20.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

21.

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

22.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

23.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

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

Mandela, Nelson

29.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

30.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

31.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

32.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

33.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

James, William

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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

43.

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

44.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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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.

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher