Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

- Hill, Christopher

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Scott, Hazel

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.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Hazlitt

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

13.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stone, W. Clement

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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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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

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird