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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Persius

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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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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

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Malcolm X

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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