Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luxemburg, Rosa

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Malcolm X

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Voltaire

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Bellin, Gita

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Persius

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas