Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

- Lovell, Marie

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

16.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Persius

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dass, Ram

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Durant, William J.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.