Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

2.

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

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

5.

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

Bellin, Gita

6.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

8.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

9.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

12.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

14.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

15.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

18.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

19.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

20.

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.

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

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

Pound, Ezra

25.

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

Rushdie, Salman

26.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

27.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

28.

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.

29.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

30.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

31.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

34.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

35.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

37.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

42.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

43.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

44.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

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

Durant, William J.

46.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

47.

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

James, William

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

50.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg