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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Epictetus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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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.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Epictetus

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Persius

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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.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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