Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bhagavad Gita

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.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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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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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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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

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Malcolm X

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Quayle, Dan

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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