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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

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

Albert Einstein

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Washington, George

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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 know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Milton, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dass, Ram

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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.

39.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Herbert, Frank

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mckern, Leo

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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

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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

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma