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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Pike, Albert

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)

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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

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

Lenin

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

James, William

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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.

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Malcolm X

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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 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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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