Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Drummond, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

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

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Pericles

11.

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

12.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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.

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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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Epictetus

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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.

34.

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 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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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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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

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

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

Horace

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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