Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

- Hanson, Virginia

Best Quotes about Freedom

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Blum, Leon

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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.

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Horace

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hill, Christopher

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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

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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

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Adams, John

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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