Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Pike, Albert

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

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.

13.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

15.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

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

18.

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

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

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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

25.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

28.

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 true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

31.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rushdie, Salman

35.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Epictetus

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

45.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.