Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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.

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Thomas Jefferson

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

19.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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

25.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

26.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Sackville-West, Vita

43.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

48.

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.

49.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham