Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Stone, W. Clement

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Hill, Christopher

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Malcolm X

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

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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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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

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.