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

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

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

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

10.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lenin

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Blum, Leon

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Dass, Ram

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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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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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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.

28.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pericles

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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Persius

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Epictetus

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.