Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Chomsky, Noam

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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Washington, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Durant, William J.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Scott, Hazel

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

32.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Silesius, Angelus