Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Adams, John

10.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

11.

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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

16.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

William Hazlitt

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Washington, George

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

31.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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 in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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 the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Mandela, Nelson