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

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

Clinton, Bill

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thomas Jefferson

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Lenin

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Epictetus

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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