Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Freedom

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

12.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

15.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

24.

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

William Hazlitt

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

28.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Hill, Christopher

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

May, Rollo

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Malcolm X

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

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.

47.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.