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

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

Epictetus

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Dass, Ram

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

Lenin

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

10.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

12.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Mckern, Leo

15.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

16.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

18.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

21.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Burke, Edmund

23.

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

Pike, Albert

24.

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

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

Aristotle

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

30.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

31.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

32.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

34.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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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.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

50.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides