Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

May, Rollo

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Malcolm X

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

Milton, John

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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

Drummond, William

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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ruskin, John

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

30.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Lord Acton

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

Terence

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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