Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Epictetus

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Terence

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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Epictetus

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

Bellin, Gita

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada