Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

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

13.

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

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Lord Acton

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Clinton, Bill