Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Pike, Albert

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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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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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Byron, Lord

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

James, William

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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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

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath