Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Madriaga, Salvador De

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Lumsden, Marshall

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Orwell, George

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Adams, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Reagan, Ronald

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Madonna

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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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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

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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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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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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