Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

11.

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

12.

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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

15.

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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

18.

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

Brown, Norman O.

19.

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

Washington, George

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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.

21.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

22.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

23.

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

25.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Horace

27.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

30.

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

31.

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 sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Malcolm X

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lord Acton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

40.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Scott, Hazel