Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

11.

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 stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Lenin

15.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

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

Persius

17.

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

Voltaire

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

25.

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

Chomsky, Noam

26.

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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

28.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stone, I. F.

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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 only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Malcolm X

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

40.

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

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

44.

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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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