Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton 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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Washington, George

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

12.

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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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 consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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