Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hamilton, Edith

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Persius

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Orwell, George

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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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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