Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Maistre, Joseph De

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

10.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Brown, Norman O.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Stone, W. Clement

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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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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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.

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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

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Greer, Germaine

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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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

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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