Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Johnson, Samuel

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

10.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

11.

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

Adams, John

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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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

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

Voltaire

17.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

18.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

25.

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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

28.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

29.

Forster, Edward M.

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Orwell, George

33.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

34.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

38.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

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

45.

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

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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