Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

10.

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

Lord Acton

11.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

12.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

13.

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.

14.

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

Hill, Christopher

15.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

16.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

18.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

19.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

24.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

25.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

26.

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

Madonna

27.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

28.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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

34.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

35.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Washington, George

42.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

49.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rushdie, Salman