Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

11.

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

Dass, Ram

12.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

13.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

14.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

15.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

16.

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

17.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

18.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Pound, Ezra

22.

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

23.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

24.

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

25.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Washington, George

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

29.

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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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

31.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

32.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

33.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

35.

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

Malcolm X

36.

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

Brown, Norman O.

37.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

38.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

41.

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

Stone, I. F.

42.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

43.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

44.

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

45.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

46.

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

Clinton, Bill

47.

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

48.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

49.

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

50.

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