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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Blum, Leon

11.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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.

36.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.