Motivational Quotes

Freedom

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Terence

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Washington, George

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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.

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

May, Rollo

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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

11.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Burke, Edmund

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Madonna

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Voltaire

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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 is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert