Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Voltaire

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Maistre, Joseph De

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Epictetus

10.

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)

11.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

12.

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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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.

14.

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

15.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

19.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

28.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

29.

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.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

32.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

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

Pericles

34.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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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.

37.

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

Orwell, George

38.

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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

43.

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

Henry, Patrick

44.

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.

45.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

48.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.