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

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Voltaire

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

15.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

17.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

22.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

25.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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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

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

32.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

34.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Sevareid, Eric

47.

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

Mckern, Leo

49.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

50.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De