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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Thoreau, Henry David

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Epictetus

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

Blum, Leon

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.