Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Ewer, W. N.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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 by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

11.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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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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.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

22.

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

23.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Drummond, William

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

27.

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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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Pericles

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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, 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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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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 freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Madriaga, Salvador De