Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

11.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

12.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

13.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, Norman O.

18.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

20.

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

21.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mckern, Leo

25.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

26.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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

31.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

32.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

33.

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

34.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

37.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

38.

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

Reagan, Ronald

39.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

48.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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