Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Drummond, William

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.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Malcolm X

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

Washington, George

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Epictetus

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

George, David Lloyd

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

44.

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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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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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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 who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Pound, Ezra