Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Greer, Germaine

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Drummond, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

James, William

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Blum, Leon

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John