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

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

Madonna

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Drummond, William

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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

11.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

21.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Scott, Hazel

31.

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

32.

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

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

37.

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

Bellin, Gita

38.

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

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

Ewer, W. N.

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

41.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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Diderot, Denis

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin