Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Persius

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Milton, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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.

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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

William Hazlitt

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Aristotle

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Epictetus

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.