Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, I. F.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Pericles

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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