Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Washington, George

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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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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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.

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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

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

Persius

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Lord Acton

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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 is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.