Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sevareid, Eric

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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

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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

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Patricia Sampson

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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.

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quayle, Dan

28.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albert Einstein

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.