Motivational Quotes

Freedom

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Macleish, Archibald

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 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

10.

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

Bellin, Gita

11.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

17.

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

Quayle, Dan

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

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.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Stone, I. F.

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Burke, Edmund

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

41.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

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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

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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