Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Sang Kyu Shin

10.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

14.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

15.

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

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

18.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Washington, George

22.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

24.

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

Adams, John

25.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Macleish, Archibald

28.

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.

29.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

31.

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

32.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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.

35.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

36.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

37.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

39.

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

40.

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

Albert Einstein

41.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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.

43.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

45.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

46.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

47.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

48.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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