Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Hoffer, Eric

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Pike, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Blum, Leon

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Persius

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.