Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ruskin, John

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

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

Epictetus

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aristotle

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Epictetus

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

25.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

26.

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

Washington, George

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Madonna

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

41.

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

Drummond, William

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Orwell, George

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

Adams, John