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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Washington, George

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

17.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Persius

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

Chomsky, Noam

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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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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

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

40.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.