Motivational Quotes

Freedom

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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.

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 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

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Sang Kyu Shin

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Persius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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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 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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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.