Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luxemburg, Rosa

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Luther, Martin

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

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.

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.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Mckern, Leo

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

19.

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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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

James, William

27.

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

Pike, Albert

28.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Aristotle

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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)

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adams, John

43.

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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epictetus

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.