Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luxemburg, Rosa

Best Quotes about Freedom

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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

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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.