Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- O'Keeffe, Georgia

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

William Hazlitt

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

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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

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Adams, John

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Epictetus

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.