Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Luther, Martin

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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 time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Ruskin, John

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.