Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

James, William

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Scott, Hazel

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Drummond, William

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Voltaire

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

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

Washington, George

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

Pericles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Colton, Charles Caleb