Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Luther, Martin

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Persius

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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