Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Epictetus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Aristotle

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stone, W. Clement

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

James, William

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace