Motivational Quotes

Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

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

Epictetus

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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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 more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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

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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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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epictetus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Washington, George

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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.

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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

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster