Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sieyes, Abbe

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

10.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

11.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Madonna

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brown, Norman O.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Bellin, Gita

32.

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

Epictetus

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert