Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Brown, Norman O.

11.

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

12.

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

Drummond, William

13.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

14.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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

Dass, Ram

18.

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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

20.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

21.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

22.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

30.

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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Washington, George

45.

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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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

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu