Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

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 catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Voltaire

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Malcolm X

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Herbert, Frank

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Lenin

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

41.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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