Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Freedom

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Aristotle

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

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Dass, Ram

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

James, William

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Sevareid, Eric

42.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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

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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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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