Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Aristotle

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

Epictetus

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drummond, William

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

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

12.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

13.

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

14.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

15.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

16.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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.

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

19.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

20.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

21.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

24.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

25.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

27.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

38.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

41.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

46.

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