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

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

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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.

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

William Hazlitt

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Washington, George

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

Thomas Jefferson

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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

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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

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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