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

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

James, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Drummond, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Washington, George