Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bellin, Gita

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

22.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Terence

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

James, William

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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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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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

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Herbert, Frank

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

George, David Lloyd

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von