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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Greer, Germaine

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Persius

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Orwell, George

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Burke, Edmund

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

James, William

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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