Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Persius

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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.

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

10.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

12.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

14.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

16.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

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

18.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

19.

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

Durant, William J.

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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

21.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Hamilton, Edith

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

25.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Stone, W. Clement

29.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

34.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

35.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

37.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

38.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

43.

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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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.

45.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

47.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

48.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert