Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rushdie, Salman

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Lord Acton

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Pericles

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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 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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Adams, John

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Pascal, Blaise

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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