Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stone, I. F.

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

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Chomsky, Noam

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lenin

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Milton, John

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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, 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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Epictetus

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Malcolm X

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

Stone, W. Clement