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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Adams, John

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Clinton, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Washington, George

14.

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.

15.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

16.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

19.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Pound, Ezra

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

George, David Lloyd

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

William Hazlitt

35.

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

Scott, Hazel

36.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

37.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

38.

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

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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.

40.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

43.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

44.

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 is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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