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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Dass, Ram

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Pericles

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

24.

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.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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 free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

28.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Epictetus

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

34.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

39.

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

Malcolm X

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia