Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

- Mandela, Nelson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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.

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

Voltaire

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

George, David Lloyd

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

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

43.

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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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Dass, Ram

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