Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Persius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

James, William

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

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Silesius, Angelus

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Washington, George

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Pike, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides