Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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.

14.

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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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Persius

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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.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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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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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.

Carl Schurz

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mckern, Leo

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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