Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

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

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

11.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Adams, John

13.

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

Lord Acton

14.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

Pike, Albert

18.

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

19.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

20.

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

21.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

22.

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.

23.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

25.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

29.

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

30.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

31.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

Dass, Ram

34.

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

Thomas Jefferson

35.

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

36.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

39.

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

Persius

40.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

44.

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

45.

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

Blum, Leon

46.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

47.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who is brave is free.