Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

- Hamilton, Edith

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Greer, Germaine

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Orwell, George

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Voltaire

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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.

25.

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

Voltaire

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster