Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Voltaire

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

James, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Milton, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Aristotle

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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