Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Chomsky, Noam

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

10.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

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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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan