Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Mandela, Nelson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Milton, John

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Madonna

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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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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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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.