Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

12.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

14.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

15.

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

Chomsky, Noam

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Lord Acton

21.

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

Brown, Norman O.

22.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

23.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Malcolm X

26.

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

Mckern, Leo

27.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

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

29.

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

Orwell, George

30.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

31.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

33.

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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

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

36.

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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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.

38.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

39.

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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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

49.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

50.

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