Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

George, David Lloyd

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quayle, Dan

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Persius

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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 the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George