Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Silesius, Angelus

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.

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

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Hamilton, Edith

10.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

11.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

12.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

27.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

28.

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

Rushdie, Salman

29.

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

30.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

32.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

33.

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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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.

47.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

48.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

49.

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

Persius