Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Washington, George

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

George, David Lloyd

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Drummond, William

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Voltaire

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

43.

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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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!