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

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

Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bellin, Gita

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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.

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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

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

Pericles

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.