Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Persius

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Madonna

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

Johnson, Samuel

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Dass, Ram

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Pike, Albert

13.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

14.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

James, William

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

Bellin, Gita

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

23.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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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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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 only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

43.

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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Durant, William J.