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

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

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.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Persius

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Horace

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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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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 people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Lord Acton

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Terence

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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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.