Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

May, Rollo

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Persius

14.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

18.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

21.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Orwell, George

23.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

26.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

27.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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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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.

30.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

32.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

34.

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

Milton, John

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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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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

39.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

40.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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.

42.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

43.

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

Hamilton, Edith

44.

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

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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 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

47.

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

Washington, George

48.

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

Stone, W. Clement

49.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie