Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

12.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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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

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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.

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

Pike, Albert

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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)

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Drummond, William

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Pound, Ezra