Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Johnson, Samuel

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stone, I. F.

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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