Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Madonna

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

Quayle, Dan

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.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Washington, George

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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.

11.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

13.

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

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Pericles

16.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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

19.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

22.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

24.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

27.

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

Orwell, George

28.

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

Albert Einstein

29.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

30.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

31.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

32.

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

38.

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

39.

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

Patricia Sampson

40.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles