Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

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

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

Persius

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 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 is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Washington, George

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Drummond, William

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

Madonna

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.