Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Patricia Sampson

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Madonna

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

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

Voltaire

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

10.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

14.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

16.

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

17.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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.

19.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

20.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

23.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

30.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

31.

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

Pericles

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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

33.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

34.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

37.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

40.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

41.

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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

43.

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

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

49.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Drummond, William