Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Dass, Ram

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Orwell, George

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Drummond, William

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

Terence

34.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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 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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)