Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Adams, John

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

Bellin, Gita

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.

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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 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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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