Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- La Follette, Suzanne

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hoffer, Eric

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Scott, Hazel

10.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

12.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

14.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

19.

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

20.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

23.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Lord Acton

27.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

28.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

34.

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

Adams, John

35.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

36.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

39.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

40.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

44.

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

Pike, Albert

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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