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

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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

Madonna

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

Luther, Martin

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Malcolm X

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

William Hazlitt

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Persius

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Pike, Albert

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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

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Lenin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.

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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