Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Best Quotes about Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Orwell, George

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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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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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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 law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lenin

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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