Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Luther, Martin

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Persius

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Washington, George

23.

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 is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Madonna

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

38.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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

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

James, William

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

George, David Lloyd