Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

- Foster, Alan Dean

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Sackville-West, Vita

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

10.

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

Quayle, Dan

11.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

12.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

16.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

17.

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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

20.

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

Persius

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

22.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

Pike, Albert

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

Washington, George

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides