Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Voltaire

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lord Acton

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

Washington, George

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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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Washington, George

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Terence

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Covey, Stephen R.

32.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Quayle, Dan

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham