Motivational Quotes

Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

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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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Drummond, William

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire