Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Pike, Albert

11.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

12.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

20.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

22.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

23.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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

43.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Orwell, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Epictetus

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.