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

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.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

George, David Lloyd

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Lord Acton