Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

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

May, Rollo

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

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

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.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

10.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

12.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

14.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

16.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

18.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

19.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

20.

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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

24.

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

25.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

28.

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

Drummond, William

30.

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

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

37.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Washington, George

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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

42.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

47.

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

Lord Acton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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