Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Sevareid, Eric

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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 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

18.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

20.

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

Dass, Ram

21.

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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

25.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

27.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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.

31.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

32.

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

Pike, Albert

34.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Washington, George

42.

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

47.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset