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

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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Hill, Christopher

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

James, William

10.

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.

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

13.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

14.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

15.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

16.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

17.

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)

18.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

19.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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.

24.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

27.

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

28.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

31.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

32.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

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

Lord Acton

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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

37.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Stone, W. Clement

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

41.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

44.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

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

Malcolm X

46.

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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.