Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

10.

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

Lord Acton

11.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

12.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

13.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

Macleish, Archibald

15.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Hill, Christopher

18.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

19.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

20.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

24.

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

25.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Drummond, William

28.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

29.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

32.

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

33.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

34.

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

35.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

36.

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

37.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

39.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

40.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

42.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are free to yield to truth.