Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Macleish, Archibald

Best Quotes about Freedom

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drummond, William

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

Malcolm X

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Bellin, Gita

27.

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

Persius

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

39.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

41.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Washington, George

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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.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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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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.