Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

May, Rollo

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

14.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

16.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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.

22.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Milton, John

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

28.

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

Blum, Leon

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

31.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Luther, Martin

36.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

38.

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 poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Orwell, George

45.

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

Quayle, Dan

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

47.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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.

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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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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