Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Freedom

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

10.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

19.

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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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.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Persius

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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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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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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

32.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

35.

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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Epictetus

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

Dass, Ram

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain