Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

May, Rollo

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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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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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Pike, Albert

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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.

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.