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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Burke, Edmund

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Milton, John

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Clinton, Bill

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.

10.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

12.

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

13.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

14.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

15.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

16.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

18.

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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

20.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

21.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

22.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

23.

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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

26.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

27.

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.

28.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pound, Ezra

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

39.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma