Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hill, Christopher

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lord Acton

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

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

Burke, Edmund

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Persius

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.