Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

- Carl Schurz

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bellin, Gita

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sevareid, Eric

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Herbert, Frank

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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