Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Lord Acton

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Horace

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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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

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Lawrence, D. H.

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von