Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Hazlitt

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

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

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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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 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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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

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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

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

Orwell, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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