Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

- Mckern, Leo

Best Quotes about Freedom

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

19.

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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Stone, W. Clement

24.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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 fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sevareid, Eric

30.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

31.

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

32.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

33.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

34.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

37.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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

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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.

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...