Motivational Quotes

Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Lumsden, Marshall

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

May, Rollo

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

George, David Lloyd

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Pike, Albert

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

Terence

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

Malcolm X

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

Blum, Leon

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

Mckern, Leo

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

14.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

15.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

17.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

19.

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

Pound, Ezra

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

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

24.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

25.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

27.

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

James, William

28.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

32.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

34.

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.

35.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

36.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

39.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

40.

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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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

42.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

44.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

45.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

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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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.

48.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

49.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Thomas Jefferson