Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Luther, Martin

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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)

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Thomas Jefferson

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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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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 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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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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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.