Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, W. Clement

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Albert Einstein

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

25.

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

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Ewer, W. N.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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.

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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

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Herbert, Frank

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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.

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

Aristotle

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

James, William

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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