Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Luther, Martin

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

10.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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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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.

21.

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

Ewer, W. N.

22.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

28.

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

Washington, George

29.

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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Voltaire

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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

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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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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

James, William

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

Mckern, Leo

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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

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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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