Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

10.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

11.

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

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Mckern, Leo

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Pericles

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Drummond, William

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

Voltaire

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

49.

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

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques