Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Persius

Best Quotes about Freedom

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

10.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

11.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

13.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

14.

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

Scott, Hazel

15.

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

Lenin

16.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

17.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

18.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

19.

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.

20.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

21.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

22.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

25.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

26.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

27.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

29.

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

30.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

33.

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

Mandela, Nelson

34.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

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

41.

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

Orwell, George

42.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

43.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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