Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Luxemburg, Rosa

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Voltaire

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hoffer, Eric

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Blum, Leon

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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.

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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

Mckern, Leo

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

James, William

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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

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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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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 not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.